[triage] Re: For Approval: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

[Zak Greant]

Salaam David, Greetings Discussionists,

David, you probably haven't been following license-discuss lately.

If you read the following pages, things should become relatively clear.
  * https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki
  * http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mmp:14786 and
  * http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mmn:14787
  * https://osi.osuosl.org/ticket/45

Now, as for the issue raised in this thread...

On Oct 1, 2007, at 14:06PDT (CA), David Abrahams wrote:
>> What requirements still need to be satisfied for this license to be
>> considered?
>
> Can someone who knows please tell us?  We had a professional (pro  
> bono) lawyer
> trying for months to get our license approved, and he got no  
> response from OSI.
> It gives the impression of a catch-22: they won't approve the  
> license and they
> won't tell us what's necessary in order to approve it.  As far as  
> we can tell we
> fulfilled all the publicly-visible written requirements.

Alexander noted this issue before. I have it ticketed as a complaint at
   https://osi.osuosl.org/ticket/60#comment:1

Cheers!
--zak