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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-23 2:56 a.m., Greg Luck
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<div class="">It is not clear here who decides the following. Is
it the OSI Board? I am on the Executive Committee of the Java
Community Process which has very clear rules on this. We all get
to vote and simple majority is used. None of that sort of thing
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<p>Greg, I was on the OSI Board for 6 years, and I've been on the
JCP Executive Committee for something like 12 years. So I can
speak with some authority with respect to the two entities. <br>
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<p>The OSI Board operates like any true non-profit Board in that the
directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of
the organization. Board meetings happen on a regular basis, and
minutes are <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://opensource.org/minutes">posted</a>. As per their
Bylaws I believe that license approval votes would require a
simple majority to approve. But to the best of my recollection,
every license vote that I participated in was actually unanimous.
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Approve, if (a) there is sufficient consensus emerging from
community discussion that approval is justified, and (b) the OSI
determines that the license conforms to the Open Source Definition and
guarantees software freedom
3. Reject if (a) the OSI determines that the license cannot
practically be remedied to adequately guarantee software freedom, or
(b) there is sufficient consensus emerging from community discussion
that the license should be rejected for substantive reasons, or (c)
the license is problematic for nonsubstantive reasons (for example, it
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<div class="">On 18 Jan 2019, at 3:28 pm, Richard Fontana
<<a href="mailto:richard.fontana@opensource.org"
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<div class="">On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:46 AM Richard
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I have posted on license-discuss the OSI's draft of
a decision process<br class="">
for licenses submitted for approval:<br class="">
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As noted on license-discuss, the OSI has decided to
adopt this process.<br class="">
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