[License-discuss] Generic process for removing approved licenses. Re: REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses

[McCoy Smith]

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> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
> Behalf Of Richard Fontana
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:06 PM
> To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Generic process for removing approved
> licenses. Re: REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses
> 
 
> "Non-reusable" was defined more specifically in the mid-2000s License
> Proliferation Committee report
> (https://opensource.org/proliferation-report):
> "Licenses in this group are specific to their authors and cannot be reused
by
> others. Many, but not all, of these licenses fall into the category of
vanity
> licenses."
> An example given was the PHP license, recently discussed on
license-review.
> 
"Deprecated" I think encompasses two concepts from the LP Committee
categorization from '06: 1) voluntary retirement; and 2) superseded.  In
other words, licenses that really ought not be considered prospectively for
use, but for which retrospective use should not be considered non-"open
source" (in the sense that that terminology means "not OSI-approved").