Bruce Perens and the OSI board [LWN.net]

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 20:17 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Bruce Perens and the OSI board by BrucePerens
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So MIT wouldn't be covered? So using X wouldn't be an approved software? Apache isn't free
either? And why not these? And at what level does OSI become irrelevant because huge sections
of what people use isn't considered open/free/libre enough? [This is the opposite of the other
question which I would say "no to: Is OSI relevant because it has accepted every license under
the sun?]

And if in the end you are elected, what then? Will you see through the entire lifetime of your
seat even if you aren't able to get enough others to vote for your views?

What I am trying to see is what is your real committment, and what are you really trying to
achieve. Is it to represent the people who sign your petition (whether they completely agree
with you or not), or is it more of a protest campaign where you are going to try and get
enough 'outrage' to set up some sort of rival organization. Not that doing so would be a bad
idea, but I would prefer to have it in the open.

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Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 22:35 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

So MIT wouldn't be covered? So using X wouldn't be an approved software? Apache isn't free either?

MIT and Apache licenses would continue to work exactly the way they do today, and would be considered OSI Certified. I would think that even the Apache Foundation would appreciate the need to focus on one MIT-BSD-Apache like license for the future rather than some large number of them. That's for the future, not asking for anyone's present practice to change but making a strong recommendation for new projects. Maybe they'd help.

Regarding the seat, I haven't walked off of a position in a long time. People don't seem to appreciate it even when it's done for the best reasons, and maybe I'm a bit wiser than I was then. I think being a dad has helped, as I have things more important than Open Source in my life now and can thus have more perspective.

I was on the W3C patent policy board with Microsoft. That was harder than this would be. We got the job done.

Bruce

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 19:46 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Thankyou for the clarifications. And yes, we all have grown up in the last 10+ years...

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 22:57 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Is it to represent the people who sign your petition (whether they completely agree with you or not), or is it more of a protest campaign where you are going to try and get enough 'outrage' to set up some sort of rival organization. Not that doing so would be a bad idea, but I would prefer to have it in the open.

I am not planning to set up an alternative organization to OSI. I would consider promoting the 4-license thing without their help, though.