[License-review] Mandatory meta OSI process thread

[Bruce Perens]

Kyle,

If nobody in a community can be bothered with participation in the process,
their lack of representation is their own choice. Nobody is paying me to do
this, my customers are interested in other things.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:14 PM Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

> On 2018-10-17 12:10, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Anyone who wishes to can participate in the license-review mailing list,
> > provided they maintain some minimum standard of civility and
> > signal-to-noise. IMO the main requirement is that you can discuss license
> > terms and related issues such as actual use of the license. No formal
> legal
> > education is required.
>
> Heartily seconded, especially that legal education isn't a
> requirement.  I've had legal education, and conversations
> with folks who haven't are by far my most valuable.
>
> > So, IMO, it doesn't make sense to say that a
> > discussion in the context of OSI doesn't represent a particular
> community.
>
> That implication doesn't follow.  I fear it could set the
> org up for a legitimacy crisis.
>
> Some folks don't participate precisely out of frustration
> with the process.  Some folks don't participate here because
> of the time required.  Some folks don't participate here
> because they don't care whether OSI approves a license.  OSI
> doesn't represent those people, because representation isn't
> about what folks on this list say about folks who aren't.
> It's about what folks who aren't on this list say about what
> goes on without them.
>
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