Two years on, I'm reviving this thread:
Richard Fontana wrote back in mid-2020:
Does anyone have an opinion on whether copyleft-next (presumably the
most recent numbered release) should be submitted for OSI approval?
A summary of the two most salient points (IMO) from downthread are:
(0) copyleft-next doesn't have a enough meta-material / collateral material /
advocacy-why-this-license-is-good material. Get that first before
submitting.
(1) copyleft-next should be 1.0 before submitting it to OSI, purely for
perception reasons (i.e., we could rebrand existing draft as 1.0)
Adding my $0.02:
IF: the OSI is willing to consider, and ultimately approve licenses that were
just recently written by a lawyer for a single client that tread new
territory and are not well vetted by the larger community (aka Van
Lindberg's so-called Cryptographic Autonomy License, see
https://lwn.net/Articles/797065/ , and also, Mark Radcliffe's CPAL from
long ago — same situation then)
THEN: I don't see any reason why they shouldn't accept copyleft-next, since
it's had 100% public discussion since its inception, has major
contributions from at least five different FOSS licensing experts, has
minor contributions from lots of folks, and really isn't too many new
licensing concepts — just bringing together ones already widely
discussed in pro-copyleft circles.
… but I also know there is rarely justice in the world, so I could easily be
surprised by OSI on this and they could reject us, which would look bad (on
them as much as it did on copyleft-next).
Point (0) above (again, details downthread) though, isn't really about having
that material available *for* OSI to approve, but rather, to have it ready
when OSI does approve as a method to advocate and educate about
copyleft-next. That does seem indeed useful.
(HBR cure: Luis Chamberlain, Fontana and I had a private side-thread
discussion about submitting to OSI that mainly was just discussion of the
ever-shifting requirements of OSI, and debate about whether OSI approval
really is *that* important. Luis may post additional HBR cure if needed.).
-- bkuhn