From 24fcccfe53ec630ed82e854954c686e4db42414e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seth Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:17:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add comments about TGPPL OSI approval question --- dosp-survey.ltx | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index 30f6c9e..74ccf35 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -311,6 +311,13 @@ Transitive Grace Period Public License (TGPPL). This license was mainly devised by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn.\footnote{It implements a strategy previously proposed by Ted Ts'o, at \otsurl{https://thunk.org/tytso/TPL.html}.} +% https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2013-July/018428.html +% TGPPL was submitted for OSI review in 2009 (!) but was never approved. +% There are some discussions that seem to imply that people were reluctant +% to approve it from nascent concerns over license proliferation and some +% prudential concerns about whether this was the right approach to +% relicensing. + It is worth pointing out that the BOSL has no connection to the Bootstrap web framework project, which is under the MIT license. Both projects independently use the term ``bootstrap" to refer to the concept of -- GitLab