Given that the GPL is used for an estimated three-quarters of free and open source licenses, it might seem strange that the OSI even had to think about it, but such is the nature of bureaucracy.
The new licenses were released in late June by the Free Software Foundation, keeper of the Free Software Definition, and it is worth bearing in mind that the FSF and OSI, which maintains the Open Source Definition, have not always seen eye to eye.
However, the approval of GPLv3 and LGPLv3 by the OSI was never in any serious doubt.
