<div style="color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif">I hereby submit the Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0 for OSI’s consideration as a new license. It is just under five years old, so not exactly “new”, but I have been asked by a number of people in the Javascript community to submit it, as it is used by a critical dependency and their policy requires OSI-approved licenses.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"># </font></span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Describe what gap not filled by currently existing licenses that the new license will fill.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><meta charset="UTF-8" style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)">While preparing the first version of the<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"> Blue Oak Council permissive license list</span></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, council members (including myself and other attorneys specialized in open source) ended up trading notes about the features of a good permissive license. No existing license boasted all of those features, particularly including plain language drafting and a strong patent grant, so we wrote this one.</span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We wrote at more length about the license’s benefits in the initial announcement, which I will avoid duplicating here: <div style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://blueoakcouncil.org/2019/03/06/model.html">https://blueoakcouncil.org/2019/03/06/model.html</a></div></span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"># </span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Compare it to and contrast it with the most similar OSI-approved license(s).</span><br></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">We feel that the license is:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><meta charset="UTF-8" style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif"><p style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto">- easier to read, and more legally explicit with regards to patents and cure provisions, than the traditional “academic” permissives like<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,68,136)">MIT</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,68,136)">BSD</a>, or<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC.html" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,68,136)">ISC</a></p><p style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto">- shorter (~ 1/5th as long) and more permissive than<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,68,136)">Apache 2.0</a></p># <span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Describe any legal review the license has been through, including whether it was drafted by a lawyer.</span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">The license was drafted by me and other experience open source attorneys. It did not otherwise undergo a public vetting prior to publication.</span></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(0,0,0)"># A</font></span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ffirmatively</span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"> </span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1;margin:0px;padding:0px">state that the license complies</span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"> </span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)">with the Open Source Definition, including specifically affirming it meets OSD 3, 5, 6 and 9.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I believe that the license complies with the OSD, including 3, 5, 6, and 9.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"># </font></span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Identify what projects are</span><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px;padding:0px">already using</span><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">the license.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(32,33,36)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This submission was prompted because the license is used in: <div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-scurry">https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-scurry</a> (downloaded 10 million times a week) </div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jackspeak">https://www.npmjs.com/package/jackspeak</a> (downloaded 9 million times a week) </div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto">Both of these are dependencies of the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob">https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob</a> project (downloaded 126 million times a week)</div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif" dir="auto">In turn, three of the top five packages in the OpenJS “Impact” list (Appium, Electron, and Node.js) depend on glob. As a result, OpenJS Foundation approached me and asked me to submit the license to OSI. (I am doing this as a favor, and am not being compensated for my time.)</div></font></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></font></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(222,223,227)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(0,0,0)">GitHub search additionally identifies about 2,000 files containing the license string (which may or may not map to packages using the license).</font></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor"># Provide the identity and contact details of the</span><span style="font-size:19.273979px"> </span><span style="font-size:19.273979px;font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px;padding:0px">license steward</span><span style="font-size:19.273979px;font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor">, if known, and of the submitter. The OSI will try to get in touch with the license steward if the license submitter is not the steward.</span><br></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Blue Oak Council (</span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px"><a href="https://blueoakcouncil.org/about">https://blueoakcouncil.org/about</a>) is the steward. I, Luis Villa, am on the board and drafting team of the Blue Oak Council, and am serving as the contact for this submission. </span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(222,223,227)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(53,54,57)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"># </font></span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Provide any additional information that the submitter believes would be helpful for license review. For example, approval of the license by Debian, the FSF or the Fedora Project would be relevant to the review process.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">The license is allowed by Fedora: <div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/">https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/</a></div></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"># Provide a</span> <span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px;padding:0px">unique name</span> <span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">for the license, preferably including the version number.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"># If any exist, provide the unique identifier by other projects, like SPDX or ScanCode.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(53,54,57)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(198,199,203)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><div style="color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><div dir="auto" style="font-size:19.273979px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(198,199,203)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">The SPDX license identifier is Blue-Oak-1.0.0. </font><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/BlueOak-1.0.0.html">https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/BlueOak-1.0.0.html</a></div><div style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important;color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:19.273979px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"># </font></span><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">Identify any</span><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px;padding:0px">proposed tags</span><font style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">for the license (when available; see below regarding tagging).</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor">As far as I know these are not yet available.</span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin",sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size:19.273979px;border-color:currentcolor"><br></span></div></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></div>