<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:19 PM Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock <<a href="mailto:nweinsto@qti.qualcomm.com">nweinsto@qti.qualcomm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7084032536478575555WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t think there is any dispute that OSI can use whatever criteria it wants to add licenses to the list of OSI-Approved Licenses. </p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, within the OSD, which is effectively our constitution. We have amended the OSD in the past (by adding #10), but this is a very rare thing to do.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7084032536478575555WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">However, part of John’s objection seems to be the possibility that OSI is declaring these licenses are not “Open Source” at all.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not exactly. I am saying that:</div><div><br></div><div>1) If we determine that an OSI-certified license is not OSD-compliant, we decertify it.</div><div><br></div><div>2) If we determine that an OSI-certified license is OSD-compliant but probably should not have been certified for other reasons, we think twice about removing it because there may be third-party contractual obligations that depend on its certified status.</div><div><br></div><div>To which I will add:</div><div><br></div><div>3) We do not consider ourselves bound by stare decisis if we believe it will lead to a bad result in this particular case. In my view, open-source license certification is not a situation in which it is always better to have a settled result than a just result.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>Babies are born as a result of the mating between men and women,<br>and most men and women enjoy mating.<br> --Isaac Asimov in Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>