On 3/29/20 1:40 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > There are some influential people who use the fact that a given > obscure license was approved ~20 years ago to argue for approval of > new licenses with provisions that are problematic from a software > freedom perspective, or to justify policy positions on what open > source means that are at odds with mainstream views in open source > (notably in the standards context), or simply to cast doubt on the > legitimacy of the OSI and the OSD. I believe that makes the problem > somewhat urgent in some cases (perhaps not in the case of licenses in > the badgeware category, though).
Yeah, and honestly having a license listed as "deprecated" is as effective as actual removal for purposed of getting people to NOT draft new licenses based on it. -- Josh Berkus _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
