[License-review] Final comment on Open Logistics License (was Re: For Approval: Open Logistics License v1.2)

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

> Pamela Chestek said:
> > Bradley has responded in a way that suggests that there some kind
> > of formal vote and I want to clarify that's not the case.
> Pamela Chestek later said:
> > The Board then votes
Jason Self wrote:
> A vote does happen then. This seems to go back to...
>
> Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>>> I ask OSI's Board to REJECT acceptance of "Open Logistics License"

Pamela Chestek wrote:
> I was saying that the license review process does not take a vote among
> participants on the license-review list, nor does anyone on the
> license-review list have any authority to direct the Board's vote
> (including me), nor does anyone have sway with the Board beyond their
> ability to make cogent argument for or against approval. I thought it was
> worth mentioning in this case because I had received feedback in the past
> that the role of the license-review list is confusing

Thanks for the additional information and transparency, Pam.

> and the authoritarian way Bradley stated his disagreement.

However, I don't think asking someone to do something (i.e., “I *ask* OSI's
Board to …”) is authoritarian, and I must object to the false
characterization of my email as “authoritarian”.

My understanding of this list is so that community participants can make
their recommendations and communicate their views to the OSI Board — who is
the only authority who makes final decisions about license approval, and
their decisions cannot be appealed by anyone and as such are quite permanent.
The stakes are thus quite high in this process for the FOSS community.

 -- bkuhn