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

[Pablo Manuel Rizzo]

Perdón, corté pedazos, pero hay que leer enteros los textos.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 22:57, Pablo Manuel Rizzo <info en pablorizzo.com> wrote:
> 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.
> ........................
>
> 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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