At 15:27 31-08-2001 +0000, you wrote: > >If OSI can't clear their backlog very soon, OSI certification will become > >irrelevant and SourceForge acceptance will become the preferred test for > >whether a license is open source. > >I quite agree. As a constructive suggestion, perhaps the OSI should >consider forming volunteer focus groups, like one for each license, to >examine each license in as detailed a manner possible and to report to the >OSI board for final decision? I am quite sure that there are many people >in the world (notably on this list) who would be happy to devote time to >this (myself included). I agree with Sam on this one, i too am willing to volunteer some of my time, talk to layers, and deal with licenses submitted from European and Asian countries. From my own experience, this group (composed by the mailing list members) is very helpful, and they made me realize that my proposed license (DanielMD Proposed License) was unnecessarily, so the world is free of yet another software license, i will adapt the BSD/MIT license. It always astounds me how many of the real world bureaucratic processes end up having equivalents in electronic/virtual world. I think that a open license review system should be implemented. My guess is that with the implementation of volunteer focus groups, the backlog would be reduced to ZERO by the end of the year. To the OSI Board of Directors or (Decision Makers), a open source group, and hopefully open minded group of people, i here reiterate SamBC suggestion, and ask the respectable members of the OSI Board of Directors to seriously consider the volunteer focus groups proposal. >Sam Barnett-Cormack >-- >license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 Thank You for your time, Compliments, and Have a Nice Day... Daniel MD [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] of IM-Thinking Consulting from Portugal, EU (European Union), [1 Euro = 200.482 Escudos]. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
