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If I'm not mistaken, this committee met in 2004? "Time to do it
right" would be about doing it <i>over.</i> Did I miss some
announcement?<br>
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On 03/09/2012 08:55 AM, John Cowan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Karl Fogel scripsit:
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<pre wrap="">If you want an organization that recommends licenses, the FSF is happy
to help. I agree that OSI should have a short-list of recommended
licenses, but the politics of dis-recommending some organization's
license are too much for them.
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This isn't actually the case, by the way. It's not the politics; it's
more the time it takes to do it right.
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I sat on the committee that came up with OSI's current classifications.
Its original remit was to evaluate licenses into best/okay/bad, but no
one except me was willing to actually say that a license was bad or that
people shouldn't use it, so we wound up with the existing, basically
fact-based classification scheme. And we took plenty of time just to
get to that, so it wasn't a matter of time.
I believe I was the only non-lawyer on that committee, except for ESR
who wasn't able to attend most of the meetings.
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