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The OSI has rejected the OVPL and OVLPL as meeting the Open Source Definition. Please read news for more details

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17 November 2005
After months of deliberation, the OSI has finally decided to reject the OVPL and OVLPL. They consider them not to meet the Open Source Definition. Therefor, we do not recommend that people use the OVPL or OVLPL for open source projects.

If you find that the OVPL or OVLPL meet your needs you are free to use the license text. We request that you change the name of the license and provide a legal entity as the license steward.

4 June 2005
The OVPL and OVLPL licenses have been submitted to the Open Source Initiative(OSI) for approval. The full submission can be read on the OSI license discuss mailing list here.

31 May 2005
We have put version 0.07 of the OVPL and OVLPL up on the site. This is intended to be a "last call" version, prior to formal submission to the OSI.

11 April 2005
After a lot of hard word we've made the site open. We will be submitting both the Open Vendor Public License(OVPL) and Open Vendor Lessor Public License(OVLPL) to the Open Source Initiative(OSI) for approval. If you would like to make comments on the licenses or get in contact with us, please use the OSI License Discuss mailing list.

Please be aware that neither the OVPL or OVLPL are currently certified by OSI and may change before certification is granted. For this reason we suggest that these licenses are not used for licensing at this time.


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