License Approval Committee

[Henry Pijffers]

The only thing I'm concerned about is: can I, as an indepent software 
engineer draft a license without the help of a lawyer or not? Does it 
really _have_ to be a qualified professional schooled in law? Or is 
that just a recommendation, instead of a requirement?

I'm talking about this bit (in point 3): "The analysis should come 
from a licensed practitioner of the law in your country."

regards,
Henry Pijffers

Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
> Just to be clear, the OSI Board of Directors has sole authority to
> approve or disapprove licenses.  That is essential to retain our
> certification mark.
> 
> The License Approval Committee recommends only.  Not to minimize your
> responsibility one bit, though....  The Board is quite likely to follow
> your advice, particularly if the committee becomes effective at
> screening and analyzing licenses.  Thanks for volunteering.  (Anyone who
> doesn't step back 3 feet is a volunteer!)  
> 
> /Larry Rosen
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Don Jarrell [mailto:don at digitalthinkinginc.com] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:19 AM
>>To: Lawrence E. Rosen; Russell Nelson
>>Cc: OS-discuss
>>Subject: RE: License Approval Committee
>>
>>
>>An interesting turn of events.  While I would probably
>>not consider myself qualified to vote for a license's
>>getting the mark, I offer a couple of questions to consider.
>>
>>- What is the standard by which votes are interpreted 
>>as "approval" ?  Absence of any objection ? That's a 
>>pretty high-standard given the open constituency of the
>>list.  Number of nay votes ? Number or percentage of yea
>>votes ?  Kind of fuzzy.  
>>
>>- If there is some metric based upon list population, 
>>could/should those who would recuse themselves from the 
>>voting - for whatever reason - be removed from that 
>>population count ?
>>
>>- Could list members whose bent is revealed to be
>>inconsistent with the OSI/OSD be booted from the list ?
>>Could they become non-voting viewers ?
>>
>>- Is there a secondary review by the Board (like ruling 
>>notwithstanding verdict) ?
>>
>>- After reading the new certification page again, I
>>wonder if the all-list-member review could be better
>>as a _screening_ process, prior to Board review of the 
>>short-list where actual "approval" and "certification" are conferred.
>>
>>I do believe in the value of the mark as currently conferred, 
>>but with this new approach, I am less sure what it will mean.
>>
>>Cheers.     dj 
>>
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>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Russell Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:45 AM
>>>To: license-discuss at opensource.org
>>>Subject: License Approval Committee
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, y'all.  We have changed the license approval process.  
>>
>>I've asked 
>>
>>>Steve to upload the changed page, which is currently at 
>>>http://russnelson.com/certification_mark.html.  Part of this change 
>>>gives license-discuss more authority.  You're being 
>>
>>deputized to serve 
>>
>>>as the License Approval Committee.  License approval 
>>
>>requests now go 
>>
>>>directly to you.
>>>
>>>I'd like it if somebody would step forward to serve as the 
>>
>>Committee 
>>
>>>chair.  Your duties are to collect a yea/nay recommendation and 
>>>forward it to me once the discussion on a license dies down.
>>>
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