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1		-The OSI under the auspices of the License Committee will be evaluating whether the current list of licenses is as comprehensive as it should be. It may be that a combination of factors, including a) how licenses are selected for review, b) the desire to ensure that approved licenses meet a minimum standard of quality, and c) a desire to discourage license proliferation, may have prevented some suitable licenses from obtaining OSI approval. This creates ambiguity about whether some licenses are or are not open source licenses.
	1	+The OSI, under the auspices of the License Committee, will be evaluating whether the current list of licenses is as comprehensive as it should be. It may be that a combination of factors, including a) how licenses are selected for review, b) the desire to ensure that approved licenses meet a minimum standard of quality, and c) a desire to discourage license proliferation, may have prevented some suitable licenses from obtaining OSI approval. This creates ambiguity about whether some licenses are or are not open source licenses.
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3	3	The mission of the License List Working Group is to find ways to ensure that the OSI’s license list is appropriately comprehensive while also continuing to encourage the use of a smaller set of well-known, well-understood licenses. The work is likely to include:
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