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

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/29/20 1:40 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> There are some influential people who use the fact that a given
> obscure license was approved ~20 years ago to argue for approval of
> new licenses with provisions that are problematic from a software
> freedom perspective, or to justify policy positions on what open
> source means that are at odds with mainstream views in open source
> (notably in the standards context), or simply to cast doubt on the
> legitimacy of the OSI and the OSD. I believe that makes the problem
> somewhat urgent in some cases (perhaps not in the case of licenses in
> the badgeware category, though).

Yeah, and honestly having a license listed as "deprecated" is as
effective as actual removal for purposed of getting people to NOT draft
new licenses based on it.

-- 
Josh Berkus