<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Interesting data gathering...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Perhaps this is something the guys at <a href="https://tldrlegal.com" class="">https://tldrlegal.com</a> could help fill out or incorporate into their site? Seems entirely relevant to what they’re trying to do too.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers!</div><div class="">Sean</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 19, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela.chestek@opensource.org" class="">pamela.chestek@opensource.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""> Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">We've had a lot of discussion about the attributes of open source<br class="">licenses and what is and isn't acceptable. I thought historical data on<br class="">approved licenses might prove valuable, or at least interesting. I<br class="">prepared a spreadsheet that lists all the OSI-approved licenses, with<br class="">columns for some attributes that have been heavily discussed recently.<br class="">It is at<br class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VVaSoVPmRa7yY6SlI5mb72zqrnGpstMH5LBfNAKNIdc/edit?usp=sharing/edit?usp=sharing" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VVaSoVPmRa7yY6SlI5mb72zqrnGpstMH5LBfNAKNIdc/edit?usp=sharing/edit?usp=sharing</a><br class=""><br class="">I'm hoping people will be interested in helping fill it out. I suggest<br class="">as the first step that we take a look and see whether the headings are<br class="">sufficiently clear and whether we should be recording any further<br class="">information. My goal was to limit data collection to the current areas<br class="">of discussion, not do a comprehensive review of all the possible<br class="">variables in open source licenses. Column E was meant to capture the<br class="">non-copyright, non-patent "yeah, that's ok" stuff that we commonly see<br class="">in licenses and that isn't noteworthy. Once we've settled on the form we<br class="">can start filling it in.<br class=""><br class="">I don't want the spreadsheet to be a place for arguing the merits, just<br class="">a place for fact-gathering. I also don't know what will happen once we<br class="">have gathering the information, but I do believe gathering the<br class="">information is the first step.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Pam<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Pamela Chestek<br class="">Chair, License Review Committee<br class="">Open Source Initiative<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">License-discuss mailing list<br class="">License-discuss@lists.opensource.org<br class="">http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>