OVPL and the OSI Board on Thursday

[David Barrett]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 3:25 pm, Andy Tai wrote:
> You can use it at any time; there is no requirement of
> some approval before you can apply a license on your
> own work...

True.

However, Sourceforge won't host OVPL projects until the OSI approves 
it.  Also, the OVPL is technically "pre-1.0" -- I would really like to 
know the verbage of the "1.0", OSI-approved license before deciding upon 
it.

And finally, the OSI stamp matters.  It'll be a challenge enough to 
educate my developer community as to why I'm choosing anything other 
than the "big two" (GPL and BSD).  That task is further complicated if 
my choice hasn't yet obtained OSI approval.

Taken all together, I'd really prefer to wait for OSI approval before 
making my big open-source code release.  But you're definitely right, if 
it comes to a point where I can no longer wait, I can always go ahead 
without OSI approval.

-david