The OSI is not a membership organization. All the $40 pays for is the ability to advise the board to pick someone (and I guess some discounts) but the board is under no obligation to actually do so according to the bylaws.
Maybe I am a member of some OSI discount club but not actually a member of the OSI. It’s probably counts as a donation but probably no longer worth the effort of getting a donation receipt and claiming anymore. From: Bruce Perens <br...@perens.com<mailto:br...@perens.com>> Date: Monday, Nov 12, 2018, 12:49 AM To: Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com<mailto:lro...@rosenlaw.com>> Cc: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org <license-discuss@lists.opensource.org<mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org>> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 19:42 Lawrence Rosen Please comment directly on the 10-item W3C Royalty-Free License<https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20170801/#sec-Requirements> requirements. Can you incorporate them somehow into the OSD? I haven't evaluated them yet. It would probably be about a hundred times easier to have them in a separate document. Regarding OSI being a membership organization, the sad reality is that having OSI join standards organizations and flying around to meet with all of them costs a lot of money. But I did not find the individual membership fee to be any sort of hardship.
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