License backlog - OSI is making itself irrellevant

[Roger Browne]

We've been waiting for well over a year to have the Eiffel Forum License
considered. It's a very simple license that is obviously open source.

Now OSI is asking existing applicants to justify why they need "yet
another new license". But the EFL is not a new license - it was in
widespread and successful use within the Eiffel community long before OSI
existed.

Fortunately, the folks at SourceForge are not slaves to OSI
certification, and dozens of EFL-licensed projects have been accepted by
SourceForge.

If OSI can't clear their backlog very soon, OSI certification will become
irrelevant and SourceForge acceptance will become the preferred test for
whether a license is open source.

Regards,
Roger

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