The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved the Mulan open source license from China, officially making it an international open source license, OSChina reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.
OSI has been in existence for 21 years. Licenses that meet the OSI open source definition are recognized as open source licenses. Currently, there are more than 100 open source software licenses approved, such as the more popular MIT, Apache-2.0, and BSD 3-Clause. On the list of open source licenses identified by OSI.
The Mulan license is jointly developed by Peking University and the leading teams in the industry, research, and research fields in the United Nations open source ecosystem, the open source community, and many lawyers with extensive intellectual property related experience.
The original version of the Mulan open source license "Mulan loose license, version 1" was released on August 5, 2019.
After the release, it has been adopted by many domestic developers. Code Cloud Gite has also supported the Mulan license in August 2019. Many projects on the platform have adopted this license. For details, you can refer to: Mulan's open source project on Gite.
OSI approved the latest version of the license v2, and the text of the agreement will be launched in the near future at https://license.coscl.org.cn.
As shown in the image from OSChina, it can be seen in the email from the OSI response that the Mulan license was modified twice before passing the OSI certification to follow up the opinions raised by the OSI and resolve related issues.
The currently reviewed version is: No comment indicates that the latest version of the submitted license is not an open source license. This should be why Mulan suddenly developed from v1 to v2.
At the same time, we can also see the OSI's expectations for the Chinese open source license. OSI stated: "The Chinese open source license will promote the release of open source software by the Chinese community, which is an important supplement to the approved license."
Mulan is the abbreviation of Module Unit Language and echoes an ancient story popular in China:
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father.
Previously, a programming language was also named after Mulan that boasts as the "C language for the intelligent IoT era". However, it turned out to be false publicity by its developer.
