Approval of IWL - Consolidated Response

[Bruce Perens]

Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> I don't have time to dig through the mail archives to find specific 
> examples to the contrary, but this is counter my understanding and 
> advice I've given others, based on personal recollection of comments 
> I've seen here, that one can change names of people or companies in an 
> OSI-approved license, and this changed license should still be 
> considered OSI-approved as long as all other terms are left the same.  
> Most of the licenses in the OSI-approved list are non-templatized, and 
> yet there are lots of examples of licensors using those licenses with 
> changed names.  Did I miss an announcement or specific instance where 
> OSI made such a position official? If so, I would have expected it to 
> correlate with an OSI effort to templatize the major licenses. 
Perhaps Russ just doesn't want people to reuse those old licenses?
I don't yet understand why names, rather than terms, are at issue for 
OSI certification.

    Thanks

    Bruce