[License-review] MIT-CMU license for Python Pillow

Pamela Chestek pamela.chestek at opensource.org
Wed Jun 26 23:49:14 UTC 2024


By "committee," I assume you mean the participants on the list. There is 
a 60 day period for review, so we're about halfway through. I would take 
a lack of other comments to be agreement with your opinion.

Pam

On 6/26/2024 4:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hey, committee:
>
> Can we have some feedback on this?  Let's not run out the clock.
>
> On 6/17/24 09:34, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be possible to add the legacy "MIT-CMU" license to the OSI 
>>> approved licenses list so Python Pillow (Python Imaging Library 
>>> fork) project can update its license to MIT-CMU, which we now 
>>> consider "more correct" than HPND, details here:
>>
>> My vote: this license is clearly open source, and it would make sense 
>> to have it listed with the note that it is an MIT variant.
>>
>> At some stage, it might be good to go through the rest of the list of 
>> "MIT variants"; nice of Fedora to have collected them for us 
>> (although I don't agree that all of these are MIT variants, but some 
>> of them obviously are).  We might want to discuss how to represent 
>> these on the website.
>>
>




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