[License-review] Fwd: For Approval | Open Source Social Network License 1.0

[McCoy Smith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: License-review <license-review-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
> Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:16 PM
> To: License submissions for OSI review <license-
> review at lists.opensource.org>; Lukas Atkinson
> <opensource at lukasatkinson.de>
> Subject: Re: [License-review] Fwd: For Approval | Open Source Social
> Network License 1.0
> 
> On 3/26/20 6:59 AM, Lukas Atkinson wrote:
> > * AAL: “each time the resulting executable program or a program
> > dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash
> > screen or banner text)”
> > * OSSNL:  “each time the resulting executable program or a program
> > dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash
> > screen, banner text, footer text .etc)”
> 
> This feels like a good criterion to decertify those licenses, or at least to
> require the license authors to update them, and to post those licenses with
> "DO NOT REUSE" warnings.
> 
> I'd actually never heard of either of those licenses before.

OOSNL is the license just submitted for approval.
AAL has been on the OSI approved list since September 2002.

I've attached a compare between the two.  The changes are for the most part grammatical, but for a minor change in the disclaimer, and applying the badging requirement only to binaries.

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