Probably because there is the concern that a few folks would seek to decertify licenses like NOSA and millions of lines of software that other folks depend on.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:59 PM Richard Fontana <rfont...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:09 PM Simon Phipps > <simon.phi...@opensource.org> wrote: > > > What I'd propose here is that we explore a process for deprecation of > licenses by someone other than the license steward. Maybe it would start > with a substantiated request endorsed by several regular list members, and > then follow the same discussion-followed-by-committee-review process as > approval. The decision to involuntarily deprecate a license would then > finally be reviewed by the Board. > > +1. I'd personally prefer to see a process for outright > decertification of licenses determined to be non-conformant to OSI's > license approval criteria, as opposed to mere deprecation, but the few > (I think) times I've brought this up over the years on this list there > didn't seem to be much appetite for that from anyone else. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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