<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:09 PM, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@mercury.ccil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Luis Villa scripsit:<br>
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> Slightly more broad than that: a list of licenses that we have rejected,<br>
> including the rationales for rejection. Your list would presumably be a<br>
> subset, as some licenses might have been submitted and rejected without a<br>
> later, false claim to being open source.<br>
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</div>I think publishing such a list would be a supremely bad idea. Our<br>
business is to approve licenses, not to disapprove them.<span class="HOEnZb"></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Explaining why previous licenses have been rejected is, potentially, an important learning tool for our approval process - both for people who are considering drafting or submitting their licenses, and for us, so that we have a sense of our own history other than our collective heads.<br>
<br>Luis<br></div></div></div></div>