On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 02:34, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
I said this: if IETF wants to know what form of patent license will be
acceptable to the open-source community, the people to ask are Richard
Stallman (representing FSF) and myself (representing OSI).
Between us (and especially if we agree), I believe we can speak *with
regard to this question* for 95% of the open-source community. This
does not make either of us power-mad dictators intent on domination,
just most peoples' recognized experts on what constitutes an
acceptable open-source license.
This looks to me like an informal attempt at forming a "design team".
I think it would be good for you (ESR) to review the text on design
teams in RFC2418 and the subsequent IESG note:
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/Design-Teams.txt
because it provides time-tested, sage advice on how to go about
producing something which stands a chance of being accepted by us
baboons in the peanut gallery.
- Bill
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