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

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 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
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