License Committee Report for July 2007

[Timothy McIntyre]

The OSI, to its credit, requires compliance with the following 
procedures, in order to have a license approved:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html#approval

This ensures that the community has an opportunity to thoroughly "vet" a 
proposed license before it is OSI-approved.

-Tim

Chris DiBona wrote:
> Hey...I specifically submit GPLv3 (sans attachments) and lgplv3 for
> -approval-. For cripes sake.
>
> Chris
>
> On 7/30/07, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Chuck Swiger writes:
>>  > On Jul 23, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
>>  > > I'm the chair of the license approval committee.  This is my report
>>  > > for the current set of licenses under discussion.
>>  >
>>  > What about GPLv3 & LGPLv3 submitted by Chris DiBona, and the
>>  > "Simplified BSD license" submitted by DES?
>>
>> Neither has been submitted For Approval.  As written, they're just
>> suggestions, desires, wishes, or hopes that we might approve them.
>>
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