License Committee Report for August 2007
Alexander Terekhov
alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 23:18:55 UTC 2007
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.
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