[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

Christine Hall christine at fossforce.com
Wed Jul 3 20:59:53 UTC 2019


Agreed! And OSI must never see its job as helping grease the wheels of 
commerce. There are other open source foundations doing that all too 
well, thank you. Besides, I think that as long as there are permissive 
licenses, the enterprise is quite happy with the way things are.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/3/19 4:44 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:20 PM Scott Peterson <speterso at redhat.com 
> <mailto:speterso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Helping lawyers is one thing; the OSI does this.
>     License creation efficiency maximization is another; a trade
>     association might do this.
> 
> 
> Yes. Having an organization that efficiently approved Open Source 
> licenses until there were hundreds... uh... more hundreds, would IMO 
> ultimately be a detriment to the community.
> 
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