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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The justification for de-listing
presently accepted licenses is that:<br>
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1. They are ambiguous or likely to perform in court in unexpected
ways, should they ever be litigated. And thus they are harmful to
their users. De-listing is a prompt to the organization that
originally created the license to replace it with an accepted
license or to submit a new version with greater legal competence
in its construction. These would be the "crayon" licenses, mostly,
those written without legal counsel.<br>
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2. They don't comply with the OSD and were accepted in error.<br>
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3. They are both redundant <i>and </i>rarely used.<br>
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Those are the only justifications. You don't get to de-list
something because you don't like its politics.<br>
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I think you need to have a committee review a proposal to de-list,
with arguments from the submitter regarding the problems in the
license, and with advice from an attorney on whether the suggested
problems are really problems.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Bruce<br>
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On 03/06/2013 08:23 PM, Luis Villa wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Richard Fontana
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<pre wrap="">The Frameworx license is one of those OSI-approved licenses that I
believe was approved "in haste". If OSI had such a procedure, I would
recommend that the Frameworx license be reviewed for de-listing.
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Any recommendations on what such a process would look like, Richard?
I'm not super-enthused about the idea, but don't want to rule out
anything without at least some discussion.
Luis
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