Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 22:35 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Bruce Perens and the OSI board by smoogen
Parent article: 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

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