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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>
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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
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM
          McCoy Smith <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mccoy@lexpan.law"><mccoy@lexpan.law></a> wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>>>From:</b> License-review
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                <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
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                <b>>>Cc:</b> License submissions for OSI review
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                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">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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                          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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                          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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