pruning "dead" licenses
Mitchell Baker
Mitchell at mozilla.org
Tue Dec 14 18:47:47 UTC 2004
Russell Nelson wrote:
>Mitchell Baker writes:
> > Russell Nelson wrote:
> >
> > >I'm shooting for decertifying and would accept delisting.
> > >De-emphasizing is a done deal (in that we accept that it will be done,
> > >in some fashion).
> >
> > If OSI goes the decertification route, would the OSD need to have a
> > clause that a license must actually be *in use* to maintain its status
> > as approved?
>
>That would probably be the best way to implement it, but it is an
>implementation detail.
>
>
Agree on a distinction between theory and an implementation piece. I
raised the issue because I thought that changing the OSD itself is a big
deal, and I wonder if one could actually decertify without some change
to the OSD.
Mitchell
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