[License-discuss] License Consistency Working Group, call for volunteers

[Josh Berkus]

Fellow licensing enthusiasts:

As some of you know, OSI currently has a legal intern reviewing all of 
our data on approved licenses on our website and elsewhere.  In some 
cases, this might result in the discovery of licenses whose pedigree or 
approval status isn't entirely clear, or are inconsistent with our 
current understanding of the OSD.

As such, the OSI Board is forming a committee, the License Consistency 
Working Group[1], to evaluate and recommend how inconsistent licenses, 
if any, be treated. If you are interested in contributing to this 
effort, please fill out this application:

https://forms.gle/DVNrLk7A5hX1YAfG6

Applicants should be open source or legal practitioners with significant 
experience dealing with open source licenses, and must be familiar with 
both the Open Source Definition and the License Review approval process. 
  Work will take approximately one year, and will include review of 
license text, research into license usage and adoption, and discussions 
of policy and practical actions.  Volunteers should expect to be part of 
the LCWG for its entire course of work barring unexpected life changes. 
LCWG members may take part in confidential discussions.

Three to six committee members will be selected by the Board.

[1] Charter: 
https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects/License%20Consistency%20Working%20Group/

-- 
Josh Berkus
Board, OSI