(Moved to license-discuss) On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:06 PM VanL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is one takeaway here that people should start by ignoring the OSI process > and just start using the license? Maybe. Not ignoring, but postponing. The handful or so of the first licenses recognized by the OSI as 'open source' had already been in wide use for years at the time the OSI was founded in 1998. Looking back (over a ~21 year period), I believe the OSI may have taken the wrong path very early on by developing a process that encouraged submission of novel, community-untested licenses. This gave us, at various points in history, the corporate vanity licenses, the "crayon" and bad-thought-experiment licenses, and possibly licenses motivated largely by individual-author ego. Maybe it would be better for OSI to have the expectation that license review will only take place some months or years after a license is already in practical use. Users of new licenses could be expected to make clear that the licenses are not OSI-approved. Richard _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
