On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:18 PM VanL <van.lindb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the flip side, I think there should be an affirmative effort to certify > licenses - such as those identified via the SPDX project - even without > affirmative submission. Most of them will not be controversial. We want to > reach a world in which we have looked at all the source-available licenses > and made a determination as to their OSD conformance. This strengthens the > OSD as a tool for measuring licenses.
Agreed! In theory I suppose the "legacy approval" process could be used for this, but it has depended on someone taking the initiative to submit a license for approval and has been invoked only rarely. I would love to see the OSI recognize some category of certification for the hundreds of licenses in actual active use in, for example, Linux distributions, more often than not simple legacy noncopyleft licenses from the 1980s and 1990s, which uncontroversially meet OSD/software freedom criteria but which would likely never be submitted for approval by a (typically nonexistent) license steward, or which would have traditionally been discouraged on anti-proliferation grounds. Far better than focusing on so-called "crayon" and thought-experiment licenses, which until relatively recently characterized a lot of the submissions to license-review. Richard _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
