Here’s the meat of the tweets & toots from the week ending January 30:

New company in LibreOffice ecosystem.

https://blog.allotropia.de/2021/01/14/cib-spins-off-allotropia/

OSI is hiring an Executive Director. Has to have the right to work in the USA.

https://opensource.org/executive_director

Elastic’s relicensing is just the natural pivot of another company using the Rights Ratchet model, not a sign of a problem with open source – or indeed AWS.

https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/26/bit-of-a-stretch/

While people sometimes erroneously describe copyleft licenses as “restrictive”, restrictions are not allowed in OSI-approved licenses. Recently-proposed licenses try to work around this by constructing a restrictive effect from otherwise acceptable elements – “constructive restriction”.

https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/27/all-open-source-licenses-are-permissive/

Any stable system of organisational rules creates a gaming space proportional to the number of rules and the length of time they have been in operation. 

https://meshedinsights.com/2017/02/09/governance-games/

OSI’s role is not to control open source but to confirm and apply community consensus

https://meshedinsights.com/2017/10/18/control-or-consensus/