Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

[Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel]

Dear OSI and reviewers,

Thank you for your constructive support in discussions and for approving
the EUPL on 4 March 2009.
The attached "gift" is virtual, however sincere (it was real on the team
room :-).
The OSOR.eu team is aware that there is still a long road and intensive
work to motivate administrations (in particular in Europe) to license
massively their software under OSS conditions.
We believe that the EUPL, because it tries to be more comprehensive and
has - uniquely, identical value in 22 linguistic versions will help,
while being compatible with the GPL. 

EUPL approval is echoed on www.osor.eu

Best regards,

Patrice-E. Schmitz 
OSOR team


-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:05 PM
To: license-review at opensource.org; osi at opensource.org
Subject: Re: Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

The board voted yesterday to accept the committee's recommendations.
Note that discussion on the caGrid license has bogged down on the
license authors desire to modify the license with every release.  My
feeling is to tell them to go away until they have a license they
like, but other people may feel differently.

Russ Nelson writes:
 > [ sorry, I neglected the EUPL. ]
 > 
 > 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 March 4th.
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: European Union Public License (EUPL)
 > Submission: 
 >
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:105:200803:kokiblmeljajbpncpb
nc
 > License: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7774
 > Comments: Matt Flaschen reviewed v1.1, and finds it conforming (at
 >   least in the English version, which is sufficient).
 > Recommend: approval
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: WTFPL
 > Submission: 
 >
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:634:200902:aglgcgbhmfcheffmdg
on
 > License: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
 > Comments: It's no different from dedication to the public domain.
 >     Author has submitted license approval request -- author is free
to
 >     make public domain dedication.
 > Recommend: denial
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: IPA Font License v1.0
 > Submission: 
 >
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:515:200902:ahjoeececbbcpiajpp
fi
 > License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090203.html
 > Comments: Discussion continues
 > Recommend: deferral
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0 (TGPPL)
 > Submission: 
 >   License: 
 > Comments: Discussion continues, but Bruce says "Deny approval"
because
 >     the benefits aren't worth the cost.
 > Recommend: deferral
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > 
 > Title: caGrid Open Source License
 > Submission:
 >
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:476:200901:nhlgbahaekpcbnldle
op
 > License: http://cagrid.org/wiki/CaGrid:LICENSE-1.2
 > Comments: Discussion has bogged down.  Apparently they change the
 >   license with every release.  Are they going to want approval every
time??
 > Recommend: deferral
 > 
 > --
 > 
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