[TriLUG] [OT] Common Public Attribution License / Open Source Initiative

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Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> Does anybody else think that
> it's a bad license that should not be OSI approved as an Open Source
> license?

OSI approval doesn't carry nearly the weight that it used to, IMO.
Unfortunately they have been responsible for excessive license
proliferation, more recently with the badgeware debacle that you mentioned.

> And on a related note... is anybody else concerned about how the OSI
> is such a closed organization, with no real notion of representation or
> accountability?  

Unfortunately they own the trademark to the term "Open Source".

It would be interesting to see a more openly run group coin a related
trademark with a narrower definition and operate more transparently.