At a recent meeting, the OSI Board discussed requests to clarify the
license approval process (documented at
https://opensource.org/approval). We've drafted the guidelines below,
which we aim to follow when reviewing licenses, to ensure that a
license will be approved only if it conforms to the Ope
Back in 2015 the OSI adopted an additional "International" license
category, as explained in this license-discuss posting by Mike
Milinkovich:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2015-June/019234.html.
The assumption at the time (at least to my recollection) s
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Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [License-discuss] Open source license with
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But that's a different point... it seems to state that the needs of GOSS
*specifically related to attribution requirements* are higher than those in the
more general FOSS community, and that is what I think is incorrect. They are
either the same or, if I may be so bold, higher in the general FOS
