Status Query: "BlackBox Component Builder Open Source License" - was: License Committee Report for December 2009
Treutwein Bernhard
Bernhard.Treutwein at Verwaltung.Uni-Muenchen.DE
Thu Jan 7 07:51:56 UTC 2010
Dear Russ,
what is the current status of the "BlackBox Component Builder Open Source
License"?
Did your "Proposition #1" pass the board?
regards & best wishes for the new year
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:33 AM
> To: license-review at opensource.org
> Cc: osi at opensource.org
> Subject: License Committee Report for December 2009
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Title: The PostgreSQL Licence
> Submission:
> http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:931:nooneedaahagajmpehif
> Original-Submission:
>
> http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:874:200909:kodinndf
ijkmchmflood
License: In the submission
Comments: Re-submitted as a general license. Asking for legacy approval.
Recommend: approval
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Title: The BlackBox Component Builder Open Source License
Submission:
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:887:200911:nlcjlommcajfndpfkoni
License: In the submission and http://www.oberon.ch/BlackBox.html
Comments: As Cowan says, it's sleepycat with redundancies removed and
the names replaced.
Recommend: approval if Proposition #1 passes; send back for
resubmission as generic template if #1 not passed.
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Title: Falcon Programming Language License
Submission:
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:826:naokadpjdjicihdgloog
License: http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=license_1_1
Comments: Clearly OSD-compatible but ... it's the GPL with an added
freedom to embed the language interpreter creating a single work
without invoking the terms of the GPL. If that were it, then we
could leave it there, but Giancarlo adds required attribution above
and beyond that required by the GPL.
Recommend: Not different enough from the LGPL to warrant approval.
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