Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

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

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