License Committee Report for September 2008

[Russ Nelson]

I'm the chair of the license approval committee.  This is my report
for the current set of licenses under discussion.  The OSI board will
be meeting September 10th.

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Title: RTEMS license
Submission: 
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:333:200808:doaakbfandadomcoblpl
License: http://www.rtems.org/license/LICENSE
Comments: They're using the GPLv2 plus extra permissions.
Recommend: reassure submittor that it's okay to give people extra
  freedoms by voting to approve the practice of using an OSI-approved
  license in conjunction with a licensing announcement that removes
  restrictions on the licensee.

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Title: MirOS License
Submission: 
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:302:200807:aiphlihjcfanjgikmbfe
License: http://mirbsd.de/MirOS-Licence
Comments: The license is obviously OSD compliant, but it is Yet
  Another academic license of limited difference and limited value.
  I've asked him to use an existing academic license, but he refuses.
  I've offered to modify an existing license to make it into a
  template which will match his license and allow him to use the
  trademark.  He's uninterested.
Recommend: approval

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Title: Iggy Wanna License (IWL)
Submission:
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:234:200805:mnoaiekgfckojngkngna
License: In the submission
Comments: It's hard to believe that the "Iguana License" is a
  serious submission, but the author behaves as if he's serious.
  Lacking any stronger indication that it's a joke license than the
  joke name, I'm taking it seriously.

  The license violates at least #9 "License Must Not Restrict Other
  Software" of the OSD because it intends to impose requirements on
  software that merely uses IWL licensed software.
Recommend: rejection

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Title: University Jaume I License (UJIL)
Submission:
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:269:200806:bmcempcigbolmdlfehig
License: in the submission.
Comments: only licenses non-commercial use.
Recommend: rejection

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Title: Unstructured Operation Markup Language License (UOML License)
Submission:
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:153:200803:ajlgmjcdbmmllniijbba
License: http://www.uoml.org/uoml_license1.1.html
Comments: Requires conformance with a standard without specifying who 
  decides that conformance (which is in effect a conflict with OSD #7
  "Distribution of License"), nor does it state what happens when
  conformance has not been achieved.
Recommend: rejection

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