License Committee Report for June 2010

[Russ Nelson]

I'm the chair of the license approval committee.  This is my report
for the current set of licenses under discussion.  The OSI board will
be meeting June 2.

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Title: Nameless license
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:1005:201004
License: In the submission
Comments: None
Recommend: Prompt license-review to discuss this proposed license.
  Prompt submittor to name the license.

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Title: KLLSD License
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:980:201004
Clarification: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:msn:992
License: in the submission
Comments: Submittor suggests that Apache is "too wordy".  Bruce
  suggests that the change documentation makes the license
  unapprovable.
Recommend: More discussion.  Commentators are uniformly dubious of
  the value of this license.  Simpler isn't necessarily better when it
  comes to legal documents.

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Title: BSD+1 License
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:971:201004
License: in the submission
Comments: Many, all of them negative.
Recommend: Return to the submittor for clarification on exactly what
  constitutes "commercial use" and "made public". Bruce suggests that
  a lawyer be involved.

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Title: The BlackBox Component Builder Open Source License
Submission: 
  http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:887:200911:nlcjlommcajfndpfkoni
License: In the submission and http://www.oberon.ch/BlackBox.html
Comments: As Cowan says, it's sleepycat with redundancies removed and
  the names replaced.
Recommend: Approval when resubmitted as a template.

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Title: Robot Open Source Hardware and Software License Version 1.0
Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:962:201001:kalegncbjnbmnmcmmaag
License: In the submission
Comments: none
Recommend: Move it over to license-discuss to see if we want to get
  into open hardware licenses (even if, yes, combined with a software
  license).

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