[License-discuss] Please don't remove the AAL license

[Hillel Coren]

It's pretty simple, I would like our app to be accurately classified as
"Open Source" by the OSI.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:14 PM Russell McOrmond <russellmcormond at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:33 PM Hillel Coren <hillelcoren at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> I saw this comment "[the license] does not appear to be used for any
>> currently available/working software", that simply isn't true. I'm one of
>> the co-founders of Invoice Ninja, we use this license and think it's a
>> great fit for us.
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>> https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja
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>> I'm more than happy to have an open discussion about it.
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> For clarity, what does "remove the AAL license" mean to you?
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> If it was no longer on the list of OSI approved licenses, that doesn't
> mean you can't still use that license.  It only means that the OSI no
> longer considers the license sufficient for calling a software project
> using that license to be Open Source.
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> I'm worried that some people believe the OSI owns these licenses, and that
> if the OSI no longer considers a license to be approved that people are
> somehow restricted from continuing to use that license.
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