Re: [Fsfe-uk] Report from BCS OSSG meeting on a new FS license

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 10:32 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Thanks for the report.  I look forward to seeing the minutelets.  I
> think you only name Mark Taylor.  Did you recognise anyone else there?

Only a couple, I'm afraid. Andrew Savory was present, and I recognised
the names of a couple of the committee but haven't ever met them. 

I think the non-OSSG turnout was perhaps eight people; there were people
on the list who couldn't attend (e.g., Ian Lynch put his name down,
although he told me before the meeting he was unlikely to attend) but I
didn't recognise other names there either.

> Were statements from SPI, FSF, debian, or anyone else given?

No. If I'd had my act together, I would have brought them to ensure they
could have been put, but I think I was expecting others to be there too
- however, 6pm on a working day in London is obviously inaccessible to
many people. I think it was relatively well understood, though, that it
was unlikely community organisations would be much in favour of a new
license.

> Do you think we should do anything about BCS before their next move?

I don't think so - I think the first thing is to see if their impression
of the meeting, and the actions to be taken, match up to what I thought
was said. Although I get the impression that the license is still on the
table, everyone non-OSSG pushed the point home that a. it wasn't clear
what the problems were, and b. the case hadn't been made that those
problems couldn't be solved in better ways.

Cheers,

Alex.