<div dir="ltr">Like McCoy I would say this <i>is</i> the public process. Anyone posting a license here for review should expect feedback and should be prepared to take on board whatever is constructive and iterate their license until consensus is reached on license-review..<div><br></div><div>MongoDB are well aware that they will need to iterate SSPL incorporating improvements as best they can. I thus encourage everyone to focus on that rather than meta-issues. By the way, they are a client and I am thus recusing myself from OSI's approval decision - note that I saw the full license text and FAQ/blog for the first time yesterday like everyone else and didn't write any of it.<div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div>(personal capacity)</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:39 PM Luis Villa <<a href="mailto:luis@lu.is">luis@lu.is</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I've long argued that OSI should formally require a public process, as a more objective replacement for the subjective "good drafting" requirement. But I'm pretty loath to tack it on as a requirement after the fact. (Consider this a particular example of my general distaste for "unwritten rules".)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 9:58 AM Richard Fontana <<a href="mailto:richard.fontana@opensource.org" target="_blank">richard.fontana@opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:52:26PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:<br>
> MongoDB had no public process for this license. Experts in copyleft<br>
> licensing were not asked for input before the license was officially<br>
> released. The OSI was (apparently) not included early in the drafting<br>
> process as OSI has been when other copylefts (e.g., GPL, MPL).<br>
<br>
That is correct -- OSI was not involved prior to MongoDB, Inc.'s<br>
public submission of the license. <br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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