WebM license third-party submission

[Lawrence Rosen]

Chris DiBona wrote:
> Please hold off on submitting this while we determine certain
compatibility
> issues internally at google. We'll engage with osi in a couple of weeks, 
> likely as not.  I would also point out that we're uncomfortable with make 
> license proliferation worse and in the event we do submit it, we will 
> want a couple of changes to how OSI does licenses.
...
> This might sound strident, but I think that OSI needs to be more open
> about its workings to retain credibility in the space.

To make sure that this isn't perceived as a Google problem alone, I want to
express total agreement with Chris on these points.

/Larry


Lawrence Rosen
Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) 
3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482
Cell: 707-478-8932
Apache Software Foundation, member and counsel (www.apache.org) 
Open Web Foundation, board member (www.openwebfoundation.org) 
Stanford University, Instructor in Law
Author, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property
Law (Prentice Hall 2004)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris DiBona [mailto:cdibona at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:42 AM
> To: license-review at opensource.org
> Subject: RE: WebM license third-party submission
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