[License-review] Proposed license decision process

[Greg Luck]

Richard

It is not clear here who decides the following. Is it the OSI Board? I am on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process which has very clear rules on this. We all get to vote and simple majority is used. None of that sort of thing is mentioned here. 

Approve, if (a) there is sufficient consensus emerging from
community discussion that approval is justified, and (b) the OSI
determines that the license conforms to the Open Source Definition and
guarantees software freedom

3. Reject if (a) the OSI determines that the license cannot
practically be remedied to adequately guarantee software freedom, or
(b) there is sufficient consensus emerging from community discussion
that the license should be rejected for substantive reasons, or (c)
the license is problematic for nonsubstantive reasons (for example, it
is poorly drafted or significantly duplicative of one or more existing
OSI-approved licenses)


Regards

Greg Luck
CTO Hazelcast

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 3:28 pm, Richard Fontana <richard.fontana at opensource.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:46 AM Richard Fontana
> <richard.fontana at opensource.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I have posted on license-discuss the OSI's draft of a decision process
>> for licenses submitted for approval:
>> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2018-December/020157.html
> 
> As noted on license-discuss, the OSI has decided to adopt this process.
> 
> Richard
> 
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