[License-review] Legacy license suggestion: CDDL 1.1

[Josh Berkus]

On 5/15/25 10:34, Richard Fontana via License-review wrote:
> All this is to say that I
> would think the OSI should not update CDDL 1.0 to CDDL 1.1 on that
> list the way it did for MPL and EPL. It would probably be better to
> just get rid of that list since it's probably based on dubious or at
> least outdated assumptions, political judgments and data, or to
> replace it with something more objectively determined.

Yeah, Pam made a plan for an extensive an more nuanced update of license 
tagging, which hasn't yet been implemented, partly due to technical 
dependancies and some of the tagging is just hard.

For example, take CDDL1.1.  Is it "popular" in the sense that you will 
encounter it in dozens-to-hundreds of still-used projects?  Yes.  Is it 
popular for new projects, or promoted by the license steward? 
Absolutely not.

Plus, any judgement of "popularity" is something we kinda need updated 
on an annual basis.  I can remember when the Artistic License was popular.

It feels like we need a tag, or tag combo, specifically for "older 
licenses that you will encounter frequently, but probably shouldn't use 
for new projects"

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-- Josh Berkus
OSI Board Member