The discussions occurring on both the License Discuss and License Review mailing lists are summarized in monthly reports and posted back to the corresponding mailing lists and the OSI website.

In order to ensure the reports and summaries of posts are usable, concise, and consistent the following style guidelines have been adopted.

1. Introduction and Table of Contents

• Each topic introduced to the mailing list is included in a table of contents.
• Topics included in the table of contents is based on the date the topic was introduced to the list: the oldest topics first, fol lowered by later topics added throughout the month.
• The table of contents will be included first in the report, above and before the summaries of any discussion posts.

Example:

2. Topic Headers

• Each topic will be listed as a new header level 3).

3. Topic Introduction

• The introductory post introducing a new topic will be summarized to emphasize the specific issue (for L-D) or license (for L-R) introduced.
• The URL will be included after the summary of the introductory post.

4. Topic Discussions (Posts)

• Only discussion posts including additional relevant (on topic) issues should be included summarized in the report.
• Responses to the initial issue(s) should not be included. Readers can click to the thread to follow the discussion.