License Committee Report for May 2007

Thu Jun 7 19:33:45 UTC 2007

Russ Nelson wrote:
> The OSI board met yesterday, and the board accepted all
> recommendations except the first. We:
>> Rejected the SimPL because it intends to solve the same problem as
> the GPL yet is incompatible with the GPL. If the authors want to
> revise their license so that it is GPL-compatible (as is the Artistic
> License), then we will be happy to reconsider.

It is. I made sure of it; the latest version posted to the list says,
"Licensing it to everyone under SimPL, or substantially similar terms
(such as GPL 2.0);"
Also, why were GAP and STPL withdrawn again?
Matthew Flaschen