I've seen may requests for OSI license certification over the past year. I
would be helpful if you could publish a list of licenses pending review, and
their priority, so those of us that have submitted a license can know where
it is in the process.
Richard Brice
WSDOT
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence E. Rosen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 6:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: License Approval Process
To the Open Source community:
The board of directors of OSI, which has responsibility to approve
licenses,
is composed of volunteers. They are doing their best to catch up
with the
backlog of submitted licenses. Given their other activities, this
is taking
more time than we'd like. I hope you can all be patient.
As OSI's new executive director, I am taking seriously the job of
processing
license review requests in a timely manner. At last month's board
meeting,
six licenses were discussed and two approved (the CNRI license
submitted by
Python and the Apache license submitted by the Apache Software
Foundation).
The board has scheduled a meeting later this month to review
licenses, and
they plan to meet on a regular basis in coming months to try to work
their
way through the backlog of submitted licenses.
The community can help by considering carefully whether a new
license is
really needed. There are several very good licenses already
approved. Will
"yet another" license help? Make sure you clearly explain your
objectives
for creating your new license when you submit it for approval, so
that the
OSI board can prioritize appropriately.
We're also trying to improve our procedures so that we can update
our web
site more frequently as new licenses are submitted for review and
then
either approved or disapproved. If any of you know of someone in
the
California Bay Area who'd like to be OSI's webmaster, please let me
know.
OSI always welcomes suggestions for improvement. Please feel free
to
contact me, or you may write directly to members of the board of
directors.
/Larry Rosen
Executive Director, OSI
650-366-3457
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.rosenlaw.com
www.opensource.org
