[License-review] License drafting quality and process [was Re: Comment on MOSL and similar licenses]

[Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz]

You wrote:
>How will you find 100 people willing to put their projects under a license
>that OSI might decide isn't Open Source at all?
This was not at all my idea, if you read me correctly: I suggested the
rapid deliverance of an "OSD compliance certificate" (even if the license
does not improve / revolutionate the FLOSS ecosystem). The certificate will
be the evidence that the licence is open source (facilitating the adoption
by the first followers).
OSI may then take more time to classify eventually the license as
"OSI-approved" once a representative level of projects will use it (as the
case may be).
P-E.



2013/6/6 John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>

> Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz scripsit:
>
> > Requiring evidence of 100+ projects using a new proposed license may
> indeed
> > be beneficial mainly to bodies, i.e. governments discovering (-
> > eventually!) the real opportunity of FLOSS distribution.
>
> How will you find 100 people willing to put their projects under a license
> that OSI might decide isn't Open Source at all?  I certainly wouldn't.
> Putting such a demand on license authors is tantamount to shutting down
> OSI,
> at least as far as approving new licenses is concerned.
>
> Anyway, all this strikes me as a solution in search of a problem.  We are
> really not being inundated with new licenses these days.
>
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