Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.

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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> This seems to miss the point.  The OSI is not the law.  It is
> "dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for
> the good of the community."

There's a little more to the mission than that, but the
above is a proper subset.

> In order for this to work, the OSI must
> express the will of the community, and it also, as a separate
> requirement, must appear to express the will of the community.

+1

> I also think it's silly to not take advantage of the advice that
> somebody like Bruce has to offer--after all, he's been around for a
> while, and he wrote the first version of the OSD, which is the
> founding document of the OSI.

Just for clarity, I don't think that's at issue.  There is a place
where Bruce -- and anyone/everyone else -- can contribute: the
license-proliferation-discuss mailing list.  I don't think the
point that brought all this up was that Bruce wasn't being
permitted to contribute, but that he wasn't selected for the
committee proper.

I have more to say on the representation issue, but it'll be
in reply to other messages in this thread, where it'll be more
on-topic.
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