move licenses to voluntarily retired list?

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Tue Jan 19 20:05:18 UTC 2010


(Not entirely sure this is the right list to post it to, but as this
has to do with Proliferation Concerns, one of the official topics for
this list, I'm posting it here.)

I was poking at the licenses list, and came across some licenses which
appear to belong in the "Licenses that have been voluntarily retired"
list.

* CUA Office license: per their website[1], the project was dissolved
and they requested that the license be 'withdrawn from the OSI list'.

* Sun Public License v 1.0: I find some references that this has been
deprecated in favor of CDDL, and indeed NetBeans has been moved from
this license since version 5.5, but I admittedly can't find an
official reference to it being deprecated. Can someone here from Sun
(Simon?) comment?

* CA TOSL: can no longer find essentially any references to this on
the CA website[2]; appears to have been written to cover the official
source release of Ingres in 2004[3], but Ingres has since moved to
GPL[4]. Not sure this counts as voluntarily retired, per se, but does
seem to have basically vanished off the net (other than the OSI
website.)

* Ricoh Public Source License: can't find any references to this on
the ricoh website, and the site and projects it was originally
intended to work with (risource.org) appears to be AWOL, and as best
as I can tell no one distributes any code under this license. Same as
above: maybe not voluntarily retired, but basically vanished from the
net other than OSI.

So who would be in charge of updating the website?

Luis

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/cuaoffice/
[2] http://www.google.com/search?q="trusted+open+source+license"+site%3Aca.com
<- first hit there doesn't actually contain the text; second hit is a
slide deck; third deck is historical information.
[3] http://investor.ca.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=315670
[4] http://www.ingres.com/about/licenses/ingres-license.php



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