[License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS

[McCoy Smith]

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> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
> Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:09 AM
> To: henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
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> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS
> 
 
> Why?  I don't see how an original license author has any moral right to
the
> name.  Once the license is released, it belongs to the whole community.
> 
> I mean, that said, I expect this particular author won't care what we do
with
> the license -- after all, he no longer uses it.  But it's entirely
possible that he
> won't respond to contact attempts.
> 
> I haven't contacted him myself becase I think and OSI board member should
> do that.
> 

FWIW, if you take out the badgeware part of AAL, you're left with nothing
much that's different from, say, BSD (upon which AAL is based). There is
paragraph 4, but I'm not sure that's adds anything to straight 3-clause BSD.
So I'm not sure what would be the benefit of trying to come up with an
improved AAL 2.0.   Better to just deprecate it and recommend BSD 3-clause
as a preferred alternative.