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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I apologize for the delay in getting back to you: the last email somehow landed in my junk /spam box (I don’t know why); so I just saw it while cleaning
my emails . I have now added this email address as "safe sender".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are not looking to create another type of license / category , but really want to publish our SDK / software under an MIT license; and hence seeking
the approval from the OSI review committee (or is it a license type which is pre-approved to be used as long as we use the text from the OSI website?).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Why do we want to use an MIT license type? --> per our research, almost ALL of our competitors ( companies in the same domain, offering the same type
of APIs and SDKs for their services) open source the SDKs/ software under MIT license
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(See Examples below)</span>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Many other companies in other domains also open source their software under MIT license type. We don’t want to be /do any different, nor do we want
to go through a process for any new license type (why re-invent the wheel).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Therefore, Can you please confirm:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>Whether we can open-source our software under an MIT license , like many others
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(examples I provided)</span>? MIT appears in the list of OSI-Approved Licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>Is there an approval needed from OSI or is it a license type which is OSI pre-approved for us to publish our code as open source, as long as we use the text prescribed for the same on OSI website?
<b>I see in the FAQ page on OSI site (</b><a href="http://opensource.org/faq#which-license"><b>link</b></a><b>, see below), that we are free to use MIT as an OSI approved license, and it doesn't need any approval process from OSI, but just wanted to confirm.
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Examples</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Company: <i>Stripe Inc</i>. ; link to their SDK under MIT -->
<a href="https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby/blob/master/LICENSE">https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby/blob/master/LICENSE</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Company: <i>Braintree </i> ; link to their SDK under MIT -->
<a href="https://github.com/braintree/braintree_java/blob/master/LICENSE">https://github.com/braintree/braintree_java/blob/master/LICENSE</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Company: <i>Beanstream </i> ; link to their SDK under MIT -->
<a href="https://github.com/Beanstream-DRWP/beanstream-java/blob/master/LICENSE">
https://github.com/Beanstream-DRWP/beanstream-java/blob/master/LICENSE</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Company <i>Dropbox</i> ; link to their SDK under MIT --> <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-php/master/License.txt">
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-php/master/License.txt</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Thorsten Glaser [mailto:tg@mirbsd.de] <br>
Sent: October-22-14 2:23 PM<br>
To: Vipin Kumar<br>
Cc: License submissions for OSI review<br>
Subject: RE: [License-review] Approval request for a New MIT license</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Vipin Kumar dixit:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>I am not sure I understood entirely your message below, but we want to
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>apply for a new MIT open source license for our SDKs (software<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Yes, but: why?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">There are enough licences out there already. Every new one means lots of effort (look for the keyword “licence proliferation” e.g.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">on the OSI site).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I can’t really say, mind you, being that I wrote The MirOS Licence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(But I published requirements for a lawyer-written successor.) I wouldn’t write a new licence these days any more either.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">bye,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">//mirabilos<o:p></o:p></p>
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