> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On > Behalf Of Josh Berkus > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:09 AM > To: henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi > Cc: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS > > Why? I don't see how an original license author has any moral right to the > name. Once the license is released, it belongs to the whole community. > > I mean, that said, I expect this particular author won't care what we do with > the license -- after all, he no longer uses it. But it's entirely possible that he > won't respond to contact attempts. > > I haven't contacted him myself becase I think and OSI board member should > do that. >
FWIW, if you take out the badgeware part of AAL, you're left with nothing much that's different from, say, BSD (upon which AAL is based). There is paragraph 4, but I'm not sure that's adds anything to straight 3-clause BSD. So I'm not sure what would be the benefit of trying to come up with an improved AAL 2.0. Better to just deprecate it and recommend BSD 3-clause as a preferred alternative. _______________________________________________ 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
