Dave, On 25/12/2016 14:58, Dave Taht wrote: ... > The non-answer seems to be that OSI has not been consulted. The choice of licence for IETF contributions, including the code content of contributions, did involve quite a bit of consultation. No doubt there is some memory of that in the relevant list archives, which led to the OSI approving the non-profit-osl-3 and then to the sad observation that it wasn't, in the end, suitable[*], so simplified BSD was the final choice by the Trust. [*] e.g. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/IRAHshoaNxUBou2pvOUOElshrj8 Happy holidays, Brian