[License-review] License Approval Request: BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI

[McCoy Smith]

So I contacted the Open MPI folks separately through their mailing list, 
told them what I had done, and they generally were supportive of this 
license getting OSI approval (they said it's just something they'd never 
got around to doing themselves). They are aware of the license list and 
can comment if they want but haven't yet (which I sort of interpret as 
silence meaning assent). Here's what Brian Barrett said, FYI:


"I’m one of the original developers for the Open MPI project and one of 
the few from the early days still involved in the project. I’m happy to 
answer any questions you have about the history of the license, although 
I speak for myself personally and not for Amazon or the entire Open MPI 
project.  Our intention has always been to be Open Source and I think we 
just missed trying to work through this process in the last 20 years.  I 
would definitely support adding the license to the approved list if the 
review process recommends it, and suspect that the rest of the community 
would be as well."

And here's what Jeff Squyres said:

"Wow, cool!  Many thanks for doing that.


I can probably be contacted with questions, but I am most definitely not 
a lawyer.

Per the 2nd and 3rd messages on that thread, do you need me to join that 
list?  If so, I’d probably join it for limited time (i.e., just for the 
duration of that discussion)."

On 5/21/2025 4:57 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 5/20/25 10:36, McCoy Smith wrote:
>> The license steward is likely the Open MPI project: https://www.open- 
>> mpi.org/about/members/ <https://www.open-mpi.org/about/members/> Open 
>> MPI is an open source Message Passing Interface implementation that 
>> is as Associated Project <https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/open-mpi/> 
>> of Software in the Public Interest <https://www.spi-inc.org/>. 
>> Contact information for Open MPI is here: 
>> https://www.open-mpi.org/community/ contact.php 
>> <https://www.open-mpi.org/community/contact.php>
>
> Given that the license steward is contactable, can we get them on this 
> thread in case there are questions?  At the least, they should know 
> that their license is under review.
>