[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[Christine Hall]

Agreed! And OSI must never see its job as helping grease the wheels of 
commerce. There are other open source foundations doing that all too 
well, thank you. Besides, I think that as long as there are permissive 
licenses, the enterprise is quite happy with the way things are.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/3/19 4:44 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:20 PM Scott Peterson <speterso at redhat.com 
> <mailto:speterso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Helping lawyers is one thing; the OSI does this.
>     License creation efficiency maximization is another; a trade
>     association might do this.
> 
> 
> Yes. Having an organization that efficiently approved Open Source 
> licenses until there were hundreds... uh... more hundreds, would IMO 
> ultimately be a detriment to the community.
> 
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