[License-review] Retire CUA-OPL-1.0

Matija Šuklje matija at suklje.name
Tue Sep 25 06:38:58 UTC 2018


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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