According to reliable information, THE Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved the Mulan Open Source license from China, which officially becomes an international Open Source license.
OSI is the organization that defines “open source” and formulates open source protocol standards. Licenses conforming to the definition of OSI open source are identified as open source licenses. Currently, more than 100 open source software licenses are approved by OSI. For example, the popular MIT, Apache-2.0 and BSD 3-clause are all in the list of OSI recognized open source licenses.
Mulan license as a key national development plan “cloud computing and big data open source community ecosystem” subtasks, led by the Beijing university, relying on the beacon cloud computing standards working group and the China open source cloud league, joint domestic open-source ecosystem production advantage team from all walks of life, the open source community, and intellectual property rights related to rich experience of many lawyers, common development.
The original version of Mulan open Source License “Mulan Loose License, Version 1” was released on August 5, 2019, and has been adopted by many developers in China since its release. Code Cloud Gitee has also taken the lead in supporting Mulan license in August 19, and many projects on the platform have adopted this license. For details, please check: Mulan’s open source project on Gitee.
The OSI approved the latest version of this license v2, and the protocol text will be online in the near future at the address license.coscl.org.cn.
As you can see in the OSI email response above, the Magnolia license was modified twice before it was certified by OSI to follow up on comments and address issues, and the current approved version is that there are no comments indicating that the latest version of the submitted license is not an open source license. That’s probably why Mulan went from V1 to V2 all of a sudden.
We also know that in the OSI Open Source license classification list, Magnolia will be classified under “International Licenses.” “The Chinese open Source license will facilitate the distribution of open source software by the Chinese community and is an important complement to the approved license,” OSI said.