WebM license third-party submission

[Chris DiBona]

(i hadn't included the questions about the corp as someone let me know what
happened)

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Chris DiBona <cdibona at gmail.com> 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
> licesne proliferation worse and in the event we do submit it, we will want
> a
> couple of changes to how OSI does licenses.
>
> 1) We will want a label explicitly deterring the use of the license.
> 2) We will want the bod list archives open for any discussions of webm. We
> are not comfortable with OSI being closed.
> 3) We need to know OSI's current corporate status. I heard that osi was a
> california corporation again, but I would like to know, from the group,
> that
> this is true for 2010 and that there aren't any issues there.
>
> This might sound stridant, but I think that OSI needs to be more open about
> its workings to retain credibility in the space.
>
> Chris
>
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Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.
Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com
Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com