[beyond-licensing] quick review of scope, resources, and goals

[Leslie Hawthorn]

On 5 April 2016 at 00:06, Allison Randal <allison at opensource.org> wrote:

> On 04/04/2016 03:08 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> > The difference between a mailing list and an "official" working group is
> > a simple process where we explain to the OSI board what we want to do,
> > and the board says "that makes sense". I've put together a first draft
> > using the standard template, could you all take a look and see whether
> > I've captured the idea behind the group? Feel free to suggest any
> > changes or make them directly to the wiki page:
> >
> >
> https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/Beyond+Licensing+Working+Group+Proposal
>

Proposal LGTM.

Thank you for volunteering to chair the Working Group, Deb!

>
> A note: I have a hope that the final result will be a set of principles
> that the FSF could also approve, with a quick substitution of "free
> software" for "open source". That might sound radical, until you recall
> that the Open Source Definition is just a few quick substitutions on the
> Debian Free Software Guidelines.
>
> I don't know that it belongs as a goal in the charter for the working
> group, since it would be the FSF's choice whether they want it at all.
> But, it does influence the process, and especially makes me glad that we
> have participants who self-identify as "free software" as well as
> participants who self-identify as "open source".
>
> I'd aim for a third version that substitutes "software freedom", but
> grammatically I think we're far less likely to succeed at a 1:1
> replacement with that phrase.
>

I would hope this third version would be possible with some clever editing
and I volunteer to assist with that effort when the time is right.

Cheers,
LH

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Leslie Hawthorn
Board Member
Open Source Initiative
http://opensource.org
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