The OSI, to its credit, requires compliance with the following
procedures, in order to have a license approved:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html#approval
This ensures that the community has an opportunity to thoroughly "vet"
a proposed license before it is OSI-approved.
-Tim
Chris DiBona wrote:
Hey...I specifically submit GPLv3 (sans attachments) and lgplv3 for
-approval-. For cripes sake.
Chris
On 7/30/07, Russ Nelson nelson@... wrote:
Chuck Swiger writes:
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> > I'm the chair of the license approval committee. This is my report
> > for the current set of licenses under discussion.
>
> What about GPLv3 & LGPLv3 submitted by Chris DiBona, and the
> "Simplified BSD license" submitted by DES?
Neither has been submitted For Approval. As written, they're just
suggestions, desires, wishes, or hopes that we might approve them.
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