[License-review] Retire CUA-OPL-1.0

[Simon Phipps]

Thanks for this, Matija. The Board voted last week to accept this proposal.

S.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 7:39 AM Matija Šuklje <matija at suklje.name> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I’ve stumbled upon CUA-OPL-1.0 lately and found it to be
> essentially a rebranded MPL-1.1 with some stylistic changes
> (different style of bullet points) and a different name. Even
> Exhibit A is in both cases the same.
>
> It seems the CUA Office project lead has already in 2008 requested
> that OSI retire CUA-OPL-1.0, but it seems there was no follow-up
> on this:
>
>
> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2008-April/000201.html
>
> It seems to me that after a decade after the (only?) project to
> use it, it would be high time to retire this license to avoid
> confusion with MPL-1.1.
>
> Or is there any good reason to keep it?
>
> I have also requested to pull it from SPDX:
> https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/690
>
>
> cheers,
> Matija Šuklje
>

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Simon Phipps*, President, The Open Source Initiative*
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