[od-discuss] OD Proliferation Policy

[Rufus Pollock]

On 24 June 2013 01:37, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:
[...]
>
> > This would basically be a slight simplification of the OSI categories.
> > Interestingly, it seems OSI chose to avoid Recommended / Not recommended so
> > as to not tread into policy territory  -- from
> > http://opensource.org/proliferation-report:
>
> Not just policy, but politics. Nothing would make this process more
> miserable more quickly than having people lobby us about non-objective
> criteria. OSI has come perilously close to that road before; I really
> don't recommend it.
>
> Some reasonably objective non-proliferation ("recommendation"?)
> criteria that would probably be useful in this context:

I'm a big +1 on this and the criteria below.

> - public drafting process (e.g., conducted on a public communication
> forum of some sort; multiple drafts presented to that forum) (not sure
> how many of the current licenses would pass this text- maybe just CC?)

I think on data all of them. Open Data Commons had a *lengthy*
consultation and drafting process.

On content licenses I'm not so sure.

Rufus

> - non-specificity (i.e., not specific to a particular
> place/jurisdiction/organization)
> - as suggested in the thread, require clearly articulated reasons for
> a new license when the license is submitted. Hard to objectively
> evaluate these once they are written, of course, but at least having
> them written down is a start.
>
> Luis
>
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