Approval of IWL - Consolidated Response

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu May 29 19:25:06 UTC 2008


Brian Behlendorf writes:
 > Did I miss an announcement or specific instance where OSI made such
 > a position official? If so, I would have expected it to correlate
 > with an OSI effort to templatize the major licenses.

We've always taken the position that a license cannot be modified in
any way (not one word).  We've always acted as if the license
steward's published copy is the official copy, and that we are not
empowered to change their license.  But I think that indeed, we should
make templates of all of *our* copies of the licenses.

I'll add it to the agenda for the board meeting next week.

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