[License-discuss] Generic process for removing approved licenses. Re: REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/27/20 9:48 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> I would favour having a preliminary step of "deprecation" based on a
> Board-validated consensus that the license is no longer acceptable,
> followed by a delayed removal step after either a process like you
> describe or several years of deprecated status with no challenge.

I agree that deprecation followed by removal is the appropriate sequence.

I do NOT agree that "several years" is the appropriate length of time.
As we've already seen this week, having the license in our catalog is a
continuing inspiration to other license authors to write noncompliant
licenses.  Deprecated licenses need to be removed in some reasonable
timeline, such as 6-12 months.

Unless you're saying that "several years" is the alternative if we don't
bother to try to track down any users/authors?  If that's what you're
saying, then that's fine.

-- 
Josh Berkus