[Solar-general] Google pide cambios a OSI, pero OSI esta cambiando desde dentro

Vie Jun 4 03:57:07 CEST 2010

Interesante los cuestionamientos de Google hacia OSI mencionadas en
este artículo:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/googles-webm-license-could-undermine-the-meaning-open-source-308?source=rss_open_source

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    Please hold off on submitting this while we determine certain
compatibility issues internally at Google. ... I would also point out
that we're uncomfortable with making license proliferation worse and,
in the event we do submit it, we will want a couple of changes to how
OSI does licenses:

    1) We will want a label explicitly deterring the use of the license.
    2) We will want the bod (board of directors) list archives open
for any discussions of webm. We are not comfortable with OSI being
closed.
    3) We need to know OSI's current corporate status.
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Y la respuesta de Perens:

http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:msp:1024:dphgapeaeaahenjiboco
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Subject: Re: WebM license third-party submission
From: Bruce Perens <bruce en perens.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:55:49 -0700

Chris DiBona wrote:
> 1) We will want a label explicitly deterring the use of the license.
>
OSI has an existing process for this.
> 2) We will want the bod list archives open for any discussions of webm. We
> are not comfortable with OSI being closed.
>
I think you aren't familiar with the way this really works.
Unfortunately, most of the OSI board don't want to be involved in
license approval. This seems odd to those of us who think that license
approval is OSI's only legitimate task, but that's why people like
Webmink are trying to reform OSI from inside.

The effect of the above is that the discussion is carried out right here
on a public list, and then Russ makes a recommendation based on it, and
the board rubber-stamps that.

So, IMO you are already seeing the discussion.
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