2025-07-18

Board members: Tracy Hinds,  Gael Blondelle, Thierry Carrez, Sayeed Choudhury, Catharina Maracke, Josh Berkus, McCoy Smith, Chris Aniszczyk, Carlo Piana

Guests: Stefano Maffulli  

Regrets: Justin Colannino, Ruth Suehle, Anne-Marie Scott

Quorum: reached at 08:03 US Pacific Time

Motion:  Catharina moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting
Second: Tracy seconds

Gaël, Thierry, and Sayeed abstain.

All others approve

Josh presents two legacy licenses for approval.

Motion:  Josh moves to approve the WordNet license in the legacy category.
Second: Carlo seconds

All others approve

Motion:  Josh moves to approve the CDDL1.1 license in the legacy category. 
Second: Catharina seconds

All others approve

Motion:  Josh moves to approve the BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI license as a regular license. 
Second: Carlo seconds

McCoy abstains

All others approve

The License committee is requesting feedback from the board about two topics: 

  • As the committee is evaluating licenses for AI components for the first time, the board confirms that when reviewing a license for an OS model, the committee can still review the license against the OSD and standard license criteria, independently of the fact that the system can conform to the OSAID or not.  When licenses aimed at AI/ML projects are approved, OSI will clearly communicate the difference between a license approval and OSAID compliance.
  • The license committee requests clarification on whether it’s possible to reject licenses entirely on non-proliferation grounds; particularly, should the LC reject a license proposal that is valid but is not in use anywhere? The board agrees on the goal of limiting license proliferation and insists that it should be communicated clearly on the License process page first. Also, the board agrees that a license should be rejected only if it violates the OSD. But a license could stay in a status where it is not approved if it is duplicative and not used by a project.
    The License committee will articulate the difference between “reject” and “not-approved” and submit changes that clarify this and other non-OSD criteria on the License process page before the next board meeting.

Stef presents a summary of the July report of the Standards and Policy team.

Stef presents the Financial highlights. 

Stef presents the Operations Update.

Meeting is adjourned at 9:15 US Pacific Time.