License Committee Report for April 2009

[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 April 1st.

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Title: IPA Font License v1.0
Submission: 
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:515:200902:ahjoeececbbcpiajppfi
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduserlicensedraft090305.htm
Drafts:
  http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduserlicensedraft090305.pdf
  http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090203.html
Comments: Chuck, Bruce, and Michael are all agreed that it's
    OSD-compliant.
Recommend: approval

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Title: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Submission: 
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:385:200811:hjdgjhelbanenkidpeml
License: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Comments: Bruce doesn't think it will be successful, but we've never
    used likelihood of achieving the author's goals as a criteria for
    license approval.  Matt believes it complies with the OSD.  The
    chief concern is that you can't sell the fonts as fonts -- you can
    only redistribute them as data included with a program.  Seems
    like a restriction, but that's what we've had on the Bitstream
    fonts for three or four years now and nobody seems to complain
    about them.
Recommend: approval

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Title: Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0 (TGPPL)
Submission:
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:462:200812:ofpndmgcgmbhbmimpkpe
License: In the submission
Comments: Discussion has died down, but it's still not clear that the
  license will not have negative pernicious effects.  We should ask
  Zooko to come back to us when he can show us the salacious effects he
  predicts the license will convey.
Recommend: deferral for at least a year

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Title: caGrid Open Source License
Submission:
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:476:200901:nhlgbahaekpcbnldleop
License: http://cagrid.org/wiki/CaGrid:LICENSE-1.2
Comments: Still no discussion
Recommend: deferral

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