[License-discuss] Retroactively disapproving licenses

[Pamela Chestek]

Someone can start here 
<https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Working%20Groups%20%26%20Incubator%20Projects/License%20De-Listing%20Process%20Proposal%20Draft/> 
if they're interested in pursuing this topic.

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek
Chestek Legal
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On 12/14/2022 1:34 PM, Chris DiBona wrote:
> Without betraying my feelings on recently approved licenses. I've 
> always thought the osi could move licenses into a deprecated or 
> 'legacy' state , so that programs under those licenses until date x 
> could be considered open source, but after that... I mean, there's 
> already a break down of superseded, etc on the Osi site....
>
> But maybe that's too nuanced a view of things :-) Goodness knows the 
> number of projects adding on nonsense extra clauses continue to 
> proliferate, mostly in the JavaScript community....but I digress.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 9:08 PM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
>
>
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: License-discuss
>     <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
>     > Behalf Of Pamela Chestek
>     > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 11:47 AM
>     > To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
>     > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Retroactively disapproving licenses
>     >
>     > To do some foreshadowing, the Working Group that was formed to make
>     > recommendations for improving the license review process will
>     soon be
>     > publishing its recommendation. This was originally within their
>     remit, but the
>     > group agreed that it was complex enough (and frankly I think we
>     were all a
>     > little tired at this point) that it should be a separate
>     undertaking. Personally, I
>     > think the OSI has to tread carefully to avoid unintended
>     consequences and
>     > therefore needs to have a lot more information before deciding
>     whether and
>     > how to delist a license, such as:
>     >
>     > How many projects are using the licenses How significant they
>     are How many
>     > downstream users there are, and whether they have relied on the
>     status as
>     > "open source" in some way, e.g., suddenly a component will have
>     to be
>     > removed because it no longer has an "open source" license
>     Whether anyone
>     > is doing marketing around the term "open source" for a license
>     considered
>     > for delisting
>     >
>     > I'm sure with more thought there is other information that would be
>     > relevant.
>     >
>     > So McCoy, are you volunteering to head up a working group to
>     work on this
>     > question? 😁
>     >
>     Hey, not like I haven't volunteered for OSI in a related area before:
>     https://opensource.org/proliferation-report#:~:text=The%20purpose%20of%20this%20document%20is%20to%20report,lessen%20or%20remove%20issues%20caused%20by%20license%20proliferation.%22
>     😉
>
>
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