License Committee Report for December 2009

[Giancarlo Niccolai]

In data sabato 28 novembre 2009 05:33:28, Russ Nelson ha scritto:
: > 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 December 2.
> 
> Proposition #1: that we turn all approved licenses into generic
> templates even if submitted as party-specific licenses.  This will
> immediately convert a number of licenses which are Mozilla instances
> into "See Mozilla Public License" references.  It will also allow
> submittors of legacy licenses such as PostgreSQL and BlackBox to
> submit a license which they are merely users of, and allow us to
> accept that license as they received it, but approve it for use by the
> rest of the open source community.
> 
> Note that Proposition #1 is of my own invention and has not bee
> discussed on the mailing list.  This email is going out long enough
> before the board meeting for sufficient discussion of its wisdom to
> happen.  I will convey the result of that discussion to the board.  It
> needs to be in the report because approval of BlackBox is dependent
> upon it.
> 

I would have gladly adopited PHP or Python license, if they were not PHP or 
Python specific.

GN.