Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

2023-08-22 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 3:41 PM Richard Fontana wrote: > > Would the OSI consider maintaining the new metadata publicly (maybe in > github.com/opensourceorg/licenses)? > We hope to do exactly that and also make it available via the license API, but that project will need to be staffed and funded

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

2023-08-22 Thread Richard Fontana
This looks like great work. Thank you Giulia! Would the OSI consider maintaining the new metadata publicly (maybe in github.com/opensourceorg/licenses)? Richard On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 5:53 PM Stefano Maffulli wrote: > > Hello folks, > > It occurred to me that I didn't announce the completion o

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

2023-08-21 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, It occurred to me that I didn't announce the completion of this project to this list. Doing it now: the project is done! Thanks Giulia for your time. To recap what has been done: - reviewed the archives of all mailing lists archives in our possession (1999 - 2023) and the public boar

[License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

2023-04-27 Thread Giulia Dellanoce
Good morning everybody. This e-mail means to be a quick update on the license-review project I’ve been working on in the past few weeks. It aims to create a systematic and well-ordered database of all the licenses that have been submitted to OSI to be approved since its foundation, whether approv

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-06 Thread Aaron Williamson
Stefano and Giulia, Thank you for your work on this! The new format looks vastly more useful than the previous one. It's great to see OSI giving this important resource the care and tending it deserves. Best, Aaron On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 8:49 AM Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-05 Thread McCoy Smith
license was approved, which may yield information on when it was submitted/discussed, etc. From: License-discuss On Behalf Of Giulia Dellanoce Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 3:13 AM To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:42 PM Richard Fontana wrote: > I found some minutes from several dates in 2005-2006, the earliest > possibly being 7 March 2005: > https://opensource.org/meeting-minutes/minutes20050307/ Thank you! Silly me, I relied on "publication date"... This confirms that we have t

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-04 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Stefano Maffulli wrote: Indeed, the license-discuss archive seems to be fairly complete. We can't find  the archives (if they exist) of board discussions where licenses were formally approved, if such proof of approval existed in the first place. Does anyone have a recolle

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-04 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:17 PM Stefano Maffulli wrote: > We can't find the archives (if they exist) of board discussions where > licenses were formally approved, if such proof of approval existed in the > first place. > > Does anyone have a recollection of how the board approved and kept reco

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-04 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 7:00 AM Richard Fontana wrote: > You probably already know this: several years ago an effort was made > to import the early (Russ Nelson's crynwr.com-hosted) license-discuss > archives to lists.opensource.org, and so you can see the results at > http://lists.opensource.org/

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-03 Thread Richard Fontana
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 6:13 AM Giulia Dellanoce wrote: > > Good morning everybody and thank you Stefano for such a nice introduction. > Being quite a neophyte to the world of open source software licenses, I am > getting more and more interested in the subject as I am moving forward with > the p

Re: [License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-04-03 Thread Giulia Dellanoce
Good morning everybody and thank you Stefano for such a nice introduction. Being quite a neophyte to the world of open source software licenses, I am getting more and more interested in the subject as I am moving forward with the project, and I really want to do my best to make my internship at OSI

[License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway

2023-03-31 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, The OSI announced today that we started cleaning up the list of Approved Licenses published on opensource.org thanks to an intern, Giulia Dellanoce. With the migration to the new website, we moved the list from simple web pages[1] to a structured and consistent approach. The new site