Thanks Richard While I was not active with the SPI in 2009, that decision is in line with what I would expect from the OSI "as a customer" of the open source licenses. The MPEG patent pool perhaps was a very easy example to discuss as their actively practiced business model is precisely what we want to avoid with open source. Nevertheless, we should then not create an opportunity for them to use CC0 to meet their goals either. henrik On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote: > In considering certain of the issues that have been raised regarding > the submission of CC0 for OSI approval, I would call attention to > something that may have been forgotten, which is Carlo Piana's > unsuccessful effort to obtain OSI approval for the "MXM Public > License" in April 2009. >> The thread may be viewed at: > http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:iis:770:201002 ("For > Approval: MXM Public License", with some offshoot threads) >> - RF >> _______________________________________________ > License-review mailing list > License-review at opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-review -- henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559