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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>I have
the same question regarding the Simple Public License (SimPL) which was
submitted for approval in March. The SimPL was approved by the License
Committee in May (quoting Russ Nelson: “</span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:navy'>Recommend: approval, placement in Redundant category.”). Due
to an error in reviewing the wrong draft of the SimPL, the OSI board inadvertently
sent the license back because it thought it was not compatible with GPL 2.0
which it was as pointed out by Matthew Flaschen and confirmed by Russ Nelson (quoting
Russ Nelson: “I did a once-over on the two and they seemed to
match, however, I didn't read it carefully enough, because the latter says
"Licensing any Derived Work under the SimPL," which caused us to
reject the license. That's obviously not GPL compatible, however the license in
the revised submission says "Licensing it to everyone under SimPL, or
substantially similar terms (such as GPL 2.0);" which clearly intends to
be GPL compatible. I'll bring this back to the board.”)</span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>Thanks
for the update.</span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy'>--Bob</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Contreras, Jorge
[mailto:Jorge.Contreras@wilmerhale.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 30, 2007
5:25 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> license-discuss@opensource.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Approval Process for
Non-Profit OSL 3.0</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is the Non-Profit OSL 3.0 that Larry Rosen submitted for
approval on Aug. 7 going to be considered for approval by OSI at its next board
meeting? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see this license listed
in the License Approval Status list at <a
href="http://opensource.org/licenses/status">http://opensource.org/licenses/status</a>.
Should this list be updated to include Non-Profit OSL 3.0?</span></font></p>
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