[License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

[Richard Fontana]

This looks like great work. Thank you Giulia!

Would the OSI consider maintaining the new metadata publicly (maybe in
github.com/opensourceorg/licenses)?

Richard

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 5:53 PM Stefano Maffulli <stefano at opensource.org> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> It occurred to me that I didn't announce the completion of this project to this list. Doing it now: the project is done! Thanks Giulia for your time.
>
> To recap what has been done:
> - reviewed the archives of all mailing lists archives in our possession (1999 - 2023) and the public board meeting minutes
> - updated the metadata of each license on the website (https://opensource.org/licenses)
> - built a list of licenses that have not been approved or have been retracted
>
> The website is now up to date, showing all the information like a link to the first submission to the mailing list for review, the link to the board approval, name of the steward and link to their version.
>
> Next step will be to expand the list of licenses to include the data about the non-approved licenses. At the moment this project doesn't have full specifications written and is not scheduled.
>
> Cheers,
> Stef
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 2:36 AM Giulia Dellanoce <giulia at opensource.org> wrote:
>>
>> Good morning everybody.
>>
>> This e-mail means to be a quick update on the license-review project I’ve been working on in the past few weeks.
>>
>> It aims to create a systematic and well-ordered database of all the licenses that have been submitted to OSI to be approved since its foundation, whether approved, withdrawn, voluntarily retired or rejected by the board.
>>
>> I have created two different sheets:
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>> The first one refers to the approved licenses, and I’ve tried to fill it with as many information as possible about them (es: license stewart, license contact, date of submission, date of approval…) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7u57yT2QcsL6nwuOExKCQd1MUOm1LL35Q7wEAsxFzM/edit#gid=0 ;
>>
>> The second one refers to all other licenses, and for each one I’ve noted the date of submission, the license contact, and whether it had been approved, withdrawn or rejected https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7u57yT2QcsL6nwuOExKCQd1MUOm1LL35Q7wEAsxFzM/edit#gid=1186567974 .
>>
>> To fulfill the mentioned sheets, I have gone through the public license review mailing list (2008 - 2023) https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/, the license discuss mailing list (1999 - 2007) http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/, the public board meeting minutes (2005 - 2023) https://opensource.org/wp-admin/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=meeting-minutes&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&action2=-1 and https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI%20Board%20of%20Directors/Board%20minutes/ .
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately I am finding some difficulties in finishing this phase of the project: I need to somehow find the minutes of board meetings that occurred before 2005, and the list of pre-approved licenses (I found out in the license discussion mailing list that some licenses were approved when OSI was first founded).
>>
>>
>> I am going to double-check the sheet containing the approved licenses, with Stefano’s approval and under his supervision, in order to be able to publish all the data I’ve collected on the OSI website. Meanwhile, if any of you has some information regarding the above mentioned problem, I would really appreciate it if they could share it with me.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Giulia
>>
>>
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