Re: OSI affiliation

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:36:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 
> I do think we should, if we join, state publicly (in whatever press
> release we generate announcing our membership) that Debian is not adopting
> the OSI license review process for Debian and that Debian will continue to
> conduct its own license review as we do now, and that we continue to
> disagree with OSI in some areas on what licenses should be considered
> free.

I think that it is an important clarification to make.

Thanks to this clarification, I would like to recommend that, in case the
OSI has already discussed a license, this work is taken into account
when making a review on debian-legal.  The OSI has recently opened
public mailing lists and a bug tracker, that will help a lot to avoid
duplicating work when it is descriptive or comparative.

  http://projects.opensource.org/redmine/projects/licensing
  http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/
  http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan