License Committee Report for August 2007

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 9/4/07, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>  Luis Villa says "my own casual review suggests that the license is
>  OSD-compliant".  Andy Wilson says "the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 should be
>  approved, since they do, IMO, meet the OSD.  dalibor topic says "OSD
>  Compliant. Both of them."  Chris DiBona says "while approval of the
>  lgpl and gpl versions 3 is fine, it should be explicitly stated that
>  any amendments must be put through this process for them to be
>  considered OSI approved."  Larry Rosen says "GPLv3 is obviously
>  OSD-compliant."  Rich Moen says "what you say is abundantly
>  obvious," Matthew Flaschen says "it is OSD-compliant."  Chris
>  Travers, after changing his mind back and forth twice, was unable to
>  convince anybody else that the GPLv3 doesn't comply with the OSD.
>  Alexander Terekhov is sure that the GPLv3 is a contract, not a
>  license, but ended up in John Cowan's and Rich Moen's killfiles.
> Recommend: approval, placement in Popular category as the successor to
>  the GPLv2.

LOL.

regards,
alexander.