Yes the idea is interesting. So you avoid giving a "blank check" to the FSF by giving another to OSI... I assume that both organisations are safe :-) For its EUPL compatibility, the European Commission avoided references to external entities by specifying: " later versions of the licence as long as they provide the rights granted in Article 2 of this Licence and protect the covered Source Code from exclusive appropriation." An alternative way...
Le jeu. 2 sept. 2021 à 18:23, Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org> a écrit : > Hello, > > I would like to be able to license my code with one of the *GPL family > licenses, and to add OSI as an extra entity that can guarantee for what > "or later" might mean in the future. > > I'd like something similar to what KDE Foundation is doing: > > https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL > sounding kind of like "any later version that is OSI approved". > > I'd like to know if OSI thinks it would make sense, and if so, to > possibly suggest a wording I could use for it. > > > Enrico > > -- > GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini < > enr...@enricozini.org> > _______________________________________________ > The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not > necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the > Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. > > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org > -- Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz pe.schm...@gmail.com tel. + 32 478 50 40 65
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