Blogger claiming "shared source" is approved by OSI

[Bill Hilf]

Thanks Danese.

As was mentioned, the headline of this blog isn't correct.  My Portuguese is only good enough to order food or beer, but I will let some of my folks there comment on this blog to help clarify.  Or if someone wants to translate this message and post there, that works too.

It's a good opportunity to share what we are doing next related to this subject.  We are currently re-designing our web site to make the OSI approved licenses clearly delineated from all other things shared source.  We are shooting for mid-November to have this done.  Moreover, we will outline these changes to license-discuss before we publish so we can get feedback.  We said we would do this before and I want to make sure we're proactive versus reactive here.

Thanks,
Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danese Cooper [mailto:danese at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Cc: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra; chris at dibona.com; license-
> discuss at opensource.org; Bill Hilf
> Subject: Re: Blogger claiming "shared source" is approved by OSI
>
> Copying Bill Hilf on this comment.  Can you guys please keep all the
> CCs intact?
>
> Danese
>
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
> > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> writes:
> >> http://blogs.technet.com/openchoice/archive/2007/10/17/shared-
> >> source-aprovado-pela-open-source-initiative.aspx
> >>
> >> The real motivation for the two "open source" licenses Microsoft got
> >> through OSI has just came up.
> >>
> >> As many feared, they are trying to further dillute the "open source"
> >> term by now claiming "shared source" to have been approved by OSI.
> >
> > Uh, no.  Look closer.  Some random blogger claimed that Shared Source
> > was approved by the OSI; Microsoft hasn't said anything (yet).
> >
> > DES
> > --
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> > Senior Software Developer
> > Linpro AS - www.linpro.no