<div dir="auto">That is a fair concern, but I think it could be mitigated. As a threshold matter, the licenses I look at as being possibly worthy of de-classification don't seem to be wisely used. For those few affected, there could be a deprecation period, and some of them could be revised.<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Van<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">__________________________<br>Van Lindberg<br><a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a><br>m: 214.364.7985</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 8:28 AM Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>As suggested, moving to license-discuss.</p>
    <p>My concern with delisting is that someone will have relied on the
      approval and it would be unfair, and a bad look for OSI, to
      suddenly pull the rug out. <br>
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    <p>Pam<br>
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    <p>Pamela S. Chestek<br>
      Chestek Legal<br>
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    On 2/7/20 5:04 PM, VanL wrote:<br>
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        <div>With the mild proviso that this discussion really should be
          on license-discuss, I also think a deprecation committee is a
          great idea.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM
          McCoy Smith <a href="mailto:mccoy@lexpan.law" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><mccoy@lexpan.law></a> wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>>>From:</b> License-review
                <<a href="mailto:license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org</a>>
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Fontana<br>
                <b>>>Sent:</b> Friday, February 7, 2020 1:12 PM<br>
                <b>>>To:</b> Eric Schultz <<a href="mailto:eric@wwahammy.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">eric@wwahammy.com</a>><br>
                <b>>>Cc:</b> License submissions for OSI review
                <<a href="mailto:license-review@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">license-review@lists.opensource.org</a>><br>
                <b>>>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] For
                approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)</p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>>I
                          agree with this. I would feel better if the
                          OSI had some process for reviewing and
                          potentially delisting or at least deprecating
                          approved licenses based on problematic
                          experiences with a >>license that were
                          not foreseeable at the time of approval. </span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>>Richard</span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">I second the idea of a License
                      Deprecation Committee, a la the License
                      Proliferation Committee of ’04.  In fact, you
                      could make it a License Proliferation and
                      Deprecation Committee to address both issues
                      (assuming there are people who believe license
                      proliferation is now a problem).</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Given that there have been
                      existing licenses on the list that have been
                      argued as precedent for recent submissions which
                      were rejected or opposed, at a minimum there ought
                      to be a serious look at some of the historical
                      approvals to test whether those approvals would
                      survive under current standards.  I can think of
                      at least one license currently on the list which
                      I’ve looked at recently where I can’t justify it
                      as consistent with the OSD (or at least my
                      understanding thereof) or the approval process as
                      currently run.  That’s not a situation that I
                      believe ought to exist and can play into the
                      perception that OSI approval is inconsistent
                      and/or arbitrary.</p>
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