[License-discuss] REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses

[Richard Fontana]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:18 PM Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> A submitter to License-Review just pointed out that we actually approved
> this license back in 2002:
>
> https://opensource.org/licenses/AAL
>
> There is absolutely no question that the AAL would not meet our license
> requirements today.  Both the badgeware requirements and the presumption
> of single authorship are prohibitive.  Fortunately, the AAL is also not
> popular; in fact, I can't even find it in the Github survey stats.
>
> As such, I move that the license be submitted to the board for removal
> from the list of approved licenses, possibly by creating a new category
> of "suspended and nonreusable licenses".

I also support removal of this license from the approved list.

I'm somewhat curious to look into the archives to see whether AAL was
discussed in the later badgeware-heyday timeframe (~2006/2007 or so),
or whether it had been forgotten by then.

Richard