<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:58 PM Smith, McCoy <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com">mccoy.smith@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">>></span>Right now, if a license is certified once, even if not currently recommended, it is still Open Source. I think a deprecation policy would be helpful, but the OSI does not currently have one.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">OSI does have a deprecation (“retirement”) policy, although I believe it is entirely voluntary:
<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/category" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses/category</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, but it is not clear what it means other than the license is no longer recommended. OSI does not have a policy that describes the result of new issuances of software under "deprecated" licenses using the current definition.</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>