<div dir="ltr">You wrote: <div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>How will you find 100 people willing to put their projects under a license</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>that OSI might decide isn't Open Source at all?</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This was not at all my idea, if you read me correctly: I suggested the rapid deliverance of an "OSD compliance certificate" (even if the license does not improve / revolutionate the FLOSS ecosystem). The certificate will be the evidence that the licence is open source (facilitating the adoption by the first followers). </span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OSI may then take more time to classify eventually the license as "OSI-approved" once a representative level of projects will use it (as the case may be).</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">P-E.</span></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/6 John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@mercury.ccil.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz scripsit:<br>
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> Requiring evidence of 100+ projects using a new proposed license may indeed<br>
> be beneficial mainly to bodies, i.e. governments discovering (-<br>
> eventually!) the real opportunity of FLOSS distribution.<br>
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</div>How will you find 100 people willing to put their projects under a license<br>
that OSI might decide isn't Open Source at all? I certainly wouldn't.<br>
Putting such a demand on license authors is tantamount to shutting down OSI,<br>
at least as far as approving new licenses is concerned.<br>
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Anyway, all this strikes me as a solution in search of a problem. We are<br>
really not being inundated with new licenses these days.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from John Cowan<br>
the Candensian plane, which is very much like <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>
ours, only more of it consists of Toronto. <a href="http://www.ccil.org/~cowan" target="_blank">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</a><br>
--Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes<br>
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