[License-review] Proposed license decision process

[Mike Milinkovich]

On 2019-01-23 2:56 a.m., Greg Luck wrote:
> 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.


Greg, I was on the OSI Board for 6 years, and I've been on the JCP 
Executive Committee for something like 12 years. So I can speak with 
some authority with respect to the two entities.

The OSI Board operates like any true non-profit Board in that the 
directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the 
organization. Board meetings happen on a regular basis, and minutes are 
posted <https://opensource.org/minutes>. As per their Bylaws I believe 
that license approval votes would require a simple majority to approve. 
But to the best of my recollection, every license vote that I 
participated in was actually unanimous.

HTH

>
> 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 
>> <mailto:richard.fontana at opensource.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:46 AM Richard Fontana
>> <richard.fontana at opensource.org 
>> <mailto: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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