Anthony Towns writes: > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 04:16:09AM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Anthony Towns writes: > > > My major problem, though, is that Eric is acting with the support of the > > > OSI board (although if you believe Bruce, even that's questionable), and > > > that's about it. There's no community involvement at all. > > We've already voted to establish a mailing list for discussing > > licenses. I'm waiting for a few technical changes to announce the > > list. In the meantime I can add you by hand if you wish, although > > there's no discussion since there's no way to get to that address. > > Cool. > > How will this mailing list be used? Will comments raised on that list > be taken into account before or after a license is deemed open source?
Before. > How will comments from that list be taken into account? I have no idea. The board is comprised of six individuals. I expect that they will all have their own method of taking it into account when board decisions are made. > I trust every post from the first will be publically archived? Yes. > > > * This should read ``The Open Source Initiative is > > > currently working with Apple to fix the few remaining flaws in > > > the license'', or something similar. > > One doesn't admit to a mistake without having a solution in place. > > It's simply not done. > > It is too done. You're confusing what hackers do amongst themselves with what suits do. OSI doesn't exist to talk to hackers. It talks to suits, and has to talk their language. > Further, not doing it makes you look like you're not interested in > correcting those mistakes. There will be an APSL 1.1. > > > * OSI publically consult before granting any license OS status. > > Will be done. Any other demands? > > Put a link to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the `Roster of the Board' page > at www.opensource.org. Replace the <a href="mailto:esr";>mail us</a> > links with links to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd really, really rather *not* get a ton of mail sent to that address thankyouverymuch. > Those would be my demands. I'd also like to see OSI keep a record of > licenses that are open source, and ones that aren't on the opensource.org > pages; ideally with some discussion of what's good about them and what's > not. The OSD 1.3 has the ones that are. There are too many others to list them. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
