Wow, cool! Many thanks for doing that. I can probably be contacted with questions, but I am most definitely not a lawyer.
Per the 2nd and 3rd messages on that thread, do you need me to join that list? If so, I’d probably join it for limited time (i.e., just for the duration of that discussion). > On May 21, 2025, at 5:17 PM, McCoy Smith <mccoy.sm...@opensource.org> wrote: > > Just a note to the user base: > I this week submitted the Open MPI license (which has a SPDX identifier of > BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI in part because it is a variant of the BSD 3-Clause > license) for inclusion in the list of Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved > open source licenses. > You can see the discussion thread here: > https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2025-May/thread.html > (unfortunately, they don't index by thread but by month, so the discussion > may continue over into to later month archives). If you want to comment on > the submission, you'd need to be a subscriber to the OSI license-review > mailing list. > The submission lays out why I thought it was important to have this license > improved: it has some beneficial features that aren't found in plain BSD > 3-clause, that I think non Open MPI user might found of value. > I indicated that Open MPI is the steward of this license (which I believe it > to be); I'm not sure if anyone on this list continues to steward the license > (which is over 20 years old, AFAIK), but if you have opinions on this > submission, you may want to provide them to the OSI mailing list. > > McCoy Smith > Lex Pan Law LLC > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to users+unsubscr...@lists.open-mpi.org > <mailto:users+unsubscr...@lists.open-mpi.org>. -- {+} Jeff Squyres To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to users+unsubscr...@lists.open-mpi.org.
