more info on license proliferation committe members

[Bruno F. Souza]

Pablo Barrera Franco wrote:
> Hi Laura,
> What about Bruno Souza from Brazil, is not member of the Board of OSI. 
> Some other Latinamerican member?
> A lot of people from USA, and little bit from other countries of the 
> "Rest of the world" :-P
> 
> Best Regards
> Pablo Barrera Franco
> Iniciativa Open Source LA (Nodo Argentina)
> 
> 

Hi Pablo,

OSI has many other activities besides the License Proliferation 
Committe, not everyone on the board will be directly involved in every 
activity.

But even not being part of the committe, I'm participating on the 
discussion on License Proliferations. And we agree with you: involvement 
from non-US people is important: many countries are now "translating" 
open source licenses, and "addapting" those licences to local laws, in 
effect just creating more licenses, and adding to the license 
proliferation issue... Brazil is one of those countries, and we're 
working here to try to prevent that, and as such, we'll bring this 
discussion to the committe when needed.

The committe is made of people that are commiting thenselves, by 
applying time and effort, with the responsibility for promoting the 
discussion, gathering feedback, and writing a report with recomendations 
to the board. Althoug a few people are on the committe, the discussion 
is an important one, and everyone that is interested should participate 
trough the mailing list.

Cheers,

Bruno.

> 
> lmajerus at speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
>>> how many of them happen to be attorneys ( in which state, country ) 
>>> and where do they currently work ??
>>>   
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>> To the best of my knowledge:
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>> Mitchell Baker, Mozilla, attorney John Cowan, Reuters, not attorney
>> Damien Eastwood, Sun Microsystems, attorney
>> Brian Geurts, Nasa, attorney
>> Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, OSI board member, formerly India, now Netherlands, 
>> not attorney
>> Laura Majerus, Fenwick & West, attorney
>> Russ Nelson, OSI Board member, not attorney
>> Karna Nisewaner, IBM, attorney
>> Diane Peters, OSDL, attorney
>> Eric Raymond, OSI observer (not board member), not attorney
>> Cliff Schmidt, Apache, not attorney
>> McCoy Smith, Intel, attorney
>> Sanjiva Weerawarana, OSI Board member and Apache, Sri Lanka, not attorney
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>>
>> The bios of the OSI board members (and Eric and me) are at: 
>> http://opensource.org/docs/board.php
>>
>> Don't have bios for the other members, but that's a good idea, and 
>> I'll try to get them up pretty soon.  I do know that some of them can 
>> be found by googling but I'd want to ask before posting URLs of their 
>> personal pages.
>>
>> This might be a good time to say again that committee members have 
>> agreed not to cast deciding votes on licenses for which they or their 
>> companies are stewards. (For example, McCoy couldn't vote on the Intel 
>> Open Source License if he hadn't already voluntarily moved it to the 
>> non-recommended tier).
>>
>> Laura
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Bruno.
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