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

[Zak Greant]

Greetings David, All,

Putting this as an issue for review on page:

   https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/issues/license-approval-process

Cheers!
--zak

On Oct 10, 2007, at 15:03PDT (CA), David Abrahams wrote:
> on Tue Oct 09 2007, devin.smith-AT-emdserono.com wrote:
>
>> Hi David:
>>
>> I don't know anything about Alexander, but I submitted the attached
>> request in accordance with the approval process described on the OSI
>> website (http://opensource.org/approval).
>>
>> I exchanged email with someone at OSI about the request.  (It's been
>> over a year since I left the firm so unfortunately I don't have
>> access to my old email there, so I don't know the name.  Thought I
>> copied you on the thread.)  He said it would be reviewed, never
>> mentioned that the request was deficient, then stopped responding to
>> my emails.
>
> Hi Devin,
>
> I don't have the original application, but I found a July 2006
> followup exchange (message-ID:
> 364C4AFC21D30D4695919631A5C2AEC25B3E3B at bos11.nixonpeabody.com) that
> you had with Russ Nelson after repeated attempts to get a response to
> the application. Russ confirmed OSI's receipt of the application by
> saying
>
>    "Received, sorry.  Am at OSCON this week.  Busy."
>
> As far as I know, that was the last we heard from OSI.
>
> I think I know what the problem is: the OSI has contradictory
> information on their website, as pointed out in a recent thread on
> their own mailing list:
>
>   http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=11936636&framed=y
>
> The message you copied me on was sent to
> license-approval at opensource.org, which is described at
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html as the place to
> send approval requests, instead of license-discuss at opensource.org,
> which is mentioned at http://opensource.org/approval.  Unfortunately
> for us, the license-approval list has no online archive so we can't
> definitively prove anything about your posting there, but it seems
> fairly likely that you saw both sets of instructions and overlooked
> the subtle difference in list names, or simply assumed (quite
> reasonably) that the "approval" list was the one to apply to for
> license approval ;-).
>
> I will re-post the application text you sent me to the license-discuss
> list; I hope that under the circumstances the OSI is willing to
> consider this a pending application rather than a new one, and will
> let us know if there is anything else we need to do.
>
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> http://www.boost-consulting.com
>
>