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Re: License File for Open Source Repositories

2016-12-24 20:52:35
Dave,
On 25/12/2016 14:58, Dave Taht wrote:

...
The non-answer seems to be that OSI has not been consulted.

The choice of licence for IETF contributions, including the code
content of contributions, did involve quite a bit of consultation.
No doubt there is some memory of that in the relevant list archives,
which led to the OSI approving the non-profit-osl-3 and then to the
sad observation that it wasn't, in the end, suitable[*], so simplified BSD
was the final choice by the Trust.

[*] e.g. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/IRAHshoaNxUBou2pvOUOElshrj8

Happy holidays,

    Brian

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