[License-discuss] Retroactively disapproving licenses

Myrle Krantz myrle at apache.org
Thu Dec 15 20:51:58 UTC 2022


Nicholas Weinstock has made an important point here: commercial entities
rely on the OSI list of approved licenses when making contracts.  That's
good for the OSI.

They will only continue to rely on that list if they understand how the
list evolves.

Best,
Myrle

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:09 PM Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org> wrote:

> Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock of Qualcomm wrote:
> > Without commenting on WHETHER any licenses should be
> > deprecated/disapproved/legacy, nor on WHICH licenses are appropriate
> > candidates, I would like to suggest a consideration related to HOW to do
> > so.
>
> +1 (… and this may be the first time in my entire life I've ever agreed
> with
> Qualcomm about anything, so that's saying something …  ☺)
>
>  -- bkuhn
>
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