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There was some update on discussions within the licensing mailing list. In general, little progress had been made on the effort, but they are progressing.
The topic that was discussed was related to the following statement in the Agenda: "There seems to be general agreement in the licensing mailing list on the content within Exhibit A (which is the same as in the file foundation/Licenses/Apache/license-roy.txt) as a new license that would accomplish the previously stated goals. The board can choose to approve it for use now (leaving it to each PMC as to when/if to apply it for each project), mandate that it be used by all PMC after a certain date, send it to an outside lawyer for further review, ask the members to vote on it, or any combination of the above." Discussion of the proposed license centered around whether the additional complexity due to addressing patent and contribution issues was worth the departure from the simple BSD-like terms. The question also arose as to whether such a change would require a full vote of the members due to how important the open source license is to the mission and bylaws of the Foundation. Roy offered to create a more BSD-like alternative license for the purpose of comparision, and will send a message to all ASF committers to be sure that they are aware of the proposed license change and are able to make comments on the proposal before the board makes a final decision. This item was then tabled for consideration at a future meeting after more feedback has been received from interested parties. ======
