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Agree with Mohammed in spirit and Tim in thought. tldr +1 barring any legal
issues.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:10 AM Tim Bell <noggin143 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thierry,
>
> Are there any legal implications, such as " This Agreement shall be
> governed by and construed under the laws of the State of California without
> regard to its conflict of laws principles. The parties hereby submit to the
> jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara,
> California." ?
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 6 February 2019 at 16:58
> To: Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> Cc: "<foundation at lists.openstack.org>" <foundation at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Becoming an Open Source Initiative
> affiliate org
>
>     On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:54 AM Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi everyone,
>     >
>     > Over the past year, the definition of "open source" has been under
>     > attack, as some enterprises wanted to change the licensing of their
>     > software while continuing to reap the benefits of calling it open
>     > source, or at least being confused with open source.
>     >
>     > That makes the work of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) more
> important
>     > than ever. They have been the steadfast guardians of that definition
> for
>     > over 20 years, approving software licenses that were following the
>     > definition, while informing people and discouraging license
> proliferation.
>     >
>     > This is very much in line with the OpenStack Foundation objectives,
> so
>     > I'd like to propose that the OpenStack Foundation becomes an
> affiliate
>     > organization of the OSI. Other open source foundations, like the
> Mozilla
>     > Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation, Python Software
>     > Foundation or Perl Foundation are already affiliates.
>     >
>     > You can learn more about the process at:
>     > https://opensource.org/affiliates/about
>
>     I think this is great and sits well within the values that we worked
> hard
>     to build over the past few years within OpenStack.
>
>     FYI, don't forget to select "Affiliate Scheme" :)
>
>     > Does anyone have concerns with that, before we proceed ?
>     >
>     > On a personal note... I think that today, open source is necessary,
> but
>     > not sufficient: we also need to define standards on how open source
>     > software is built, not just how the resulting software is licensed.
>     > However that work cannot happen unless we base it on a strong open
>     > source definition, and participating as an OSI affiliate would give
> us
>     > opportunities to have those new standardization discussion at that
> level.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>     >
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