On 3/27/20 9:48 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > I would favour having a preliminary step of "deprecation" based on a > Board-validated consensus that the license is no longer acceptable, > followed by a delayed removal step after either a process like you > describe or several years of deprecated status with no challenge.
I agree that deprecation followed by removal is the appropriate sequence. I do NOT agree that "several years" is the appropriate length of time. As we've already seen this week, having the license in our catalog is a continuing inspiration to other license authors to write noncompliant licenses. Deprecated licenses need to be removed in some reasonable timeline, such as 6-12 months. Unless you're saying that "several years" is the alternative if we don't bother to try to track down any users/authors? If that's what you're saying, then that's fine. -- 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 License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
