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

[Matt Wilson]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
>
> 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."

Note also that Brian wrote to this mailing list back in May [1] with
that message above.

--msw

[1] https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2025-May/005790.html