Hear hear! I recently had to grant an internal exception to allow contributions to Vim because "The Vim License" is not an OSI-approved license. I have no doubt that it would be approved were it to be submitted, but it has not been as far as I can tell and is unlikely to ever be.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:56 PM Richard Fontana <rfont...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
