[Discussioni] Fwd: The Debian Project joins the OSI

[Alexjan Carraturo]

Il 30 marzo 2012 12:22, Francesco Potortì <pot a potorti.it> ha scritto:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
> The Debian Project joins the OSI                        press a debian.org
> March 30th, 2012                http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120330
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Debian Project joins the OSI
>
>
> The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it is joining the Open
> Source Initiative ("OSI") [1] as an affiliate. The OSI was founded in
> 1998 by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens, with the aim of explaining,
> advocating, and protecting the term "open source". Debian shares the
> OSI's desire to encourage Free Software. Debian's Social Contract
> commits it to producing a system which is 100% free [2].
>
>  1: http://opensource.org/
>  2: http://www.debian.org/intro/free
>
> The OSI's Open Source Definition [3] is closely based on the Debian
> Free Software Guidelines [4], the document that defines the types of
> software licenses which the Debian Project accepts. For many years now,
> the OSI has helped the "Open Source" trademark gain recognition,
> particularly in the corporate world. The OSI recently decided to
> pursue this mission by becoming a member-led organisation, and as a
> first step has invited Free and Open Source Software projects to
> become affiliate members.
>
>  3: http://opensource.org/docs/osd
>  4: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>
> By becoming an affiliate of the OSI, the Debian Project recognises the
> OSI's history of efforts towards goals shared by both organisations.
> However, the Debian Project will not automatically adopt OSI decisions
> on the acceptability of particular software licenses and will maintain
> an independent license review process.
>
>
> "For widespread Free Software adoption we still need to overcome many
> challenges," said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader. "While
> Debian is perfectly suited to face technical challenges, other
> organisations are better suited to face more political ones, like
> anti-Free Software corporate FUD, or unjust worldwide laws that make it
> illegal to share pieces of Free Software. I value the work that OSI is
> doing in those areas. Thanks to their new affiliation scheme, I'm
> looking forward to Debian taking an active role in OSI."
>
>
> Simon Phipps of the OSI welcomed Debian to the organisation, saying,
> "It's great to have Debian joining the new affiliate scheme; the
> project's breadth of experience will be a valuable addition. The Board
> is keen to make progress and having a diverse and representative
> Affiliate membership is crucial if we are to make well-founded
> decisions in each of the challenging changes we anticipate."
>
> About the Open Source Initiative
> --------------------------------
>
> The OSI are the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) [5] and
> the community-recognised body for reviewing and approving licenses as
> OSD-conformant. The OSI is actively involved in Open Source
> community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness
> and the importance of non-proprietary software.
>
>  5: http://opensource.org/docs/osd
>
> About Debian
> ------------
>
> The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
> free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
> the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
> volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
> Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
> of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
>
> Contact Information
> -------------------
> For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
> http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press a debian.org>.
>   Digital signature
> _______________________________________________
> http://lists.softwarelibero.it/mailman/listinfo/discussioni
> Totale iscritti: 368 al 06/11/2010
>
> Questa è una lista di discussione pubblica aperta a tutti.
> I messaggi di questa lista non rispecchiano necessariamente
> le posizioni dell'Associazione per il Software Libero.




Molto interessante, non tato per il fatto in se che non cambia per la
sostanza per quanto riguarda debian, quanto per quello che potrebbe
significare.

L'argomento sarebbe ovviamente da approfondire, andando al di là del
formalismo dei comunicati, magari scambiando qualche chiacchera
"informale" con il project leader in merito a questa decisione, che
onestamente, da un lato sorprende (ma pensando a Perens neanche più di
tanto).

Saluti a tutti
Alexjan.


-- 
Alexjan Carraturo
--
Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org)
Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador
member of FSFE Italian Team

Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack
Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com
--