<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Moen</b> <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Matthew Flaschen (<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu">matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>):<br><br>> As I said, it's OSD-compliant (I think everyone agrees on this). But<br>> that's clearly not the only criteria OSI uses.
<br><br>Is that so? (That's not intended to be rhetorical.) I see nothing on<br><a href="http://www.opensource.org/approval">http://www.opensource.org/approval</a> that documents other requirements<br>beyond procedural/review steps to assure OSD-compliance.
</blockquote><div><br>There have been attempts to add other guidelines in the past to reduce license proliferation. Of course those attempts appear to be dead in the water (past guidelines would probably have mandated the rejection of the GPL v3).
<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br></div><br></div><br>