No objections from my part. I can’t imagine anyone would object, but I’ll ask in the dev community as well.
If there are any questions / discussion where you need someone from our side to answer comments, let me know and I can join the discussion on the OSI list. > On May 21, 2025, at 7:06 PM, McCoy Smith <mccoy.sm...@opensource.org> wrote: > > FWIW if there is any objection to me doing this from Open MPI, let me know as > I'd want to let OSI know. I'm assuming you wouldn't but don't know for sure. > > On 5/21/2025 2:34 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >> 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> >>> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:users+unsubscr...@lists.open-mpi.org>. > > > 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.
