Hi Pamela, all:
In June 2023, the License Review Working Group completed its work
revising the license review process. There was an outstanding task
that grew out of the Working Group, which was to create tags for the
approved licenses that could be used as an aid in filtering approved
licenses for their characteristics.
There are two stages to this task. The first stage is to create a list
of tags to be attached to licenses. There is already a preliminary
list
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1svyrUgE6xwzaNO4xnhTT0-pHPblwBm__BArtttkQWxk/edit?usp=sharing>,
so we should be able to complete this task in a fairly short period of
time.
I looked at the list and wondered about its purpose. The tags doesn't
say anything about rights, presumably they are all the same for open
source licenses. But they also don't say anything about disclaimers and
prohibitions?
If this is primarily about obligations, I wanted to point out that
German lawyers created a comprehensive system for explaining license
obligations, including instructions on how to fulfill them, using some
form of pseudo code ("if this do that"). I'm talking about the OSADL
folks though I think this stuff is still paywalled.
I'm not sure the OSI is up for it but some authoritative model of
license obligations and how to fulfill them would be great. The tags
don't have to state how the obligations should be fulfilled, however,
their completeness and quality would make it much easier to develop such
instructions based on an authoritative ontology (hierarchical list of tags).
Cheers, Dirk
The second stage is to add the tags to the existing licenses. I would
like to have as many people as possible willing to assist in this
task. There are over 100 licenses and I would like to have each
license reviewed by two people, a primary reviewer and verifier. You
do not have to be a lawyer to participate, only comfortable reading
and understanding open source licenses.
If you are interested in helping with this task, please respond to me
only (to save spamming everyone).
Thanks,
Pam Chestek
Chair, License Review Committee
Open Source Initiative
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