> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On > Behalf Of Richard Fontana > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:06 PM > To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Generic process for removing approved > licenses. Re: REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses > > "Non-reusable" was defined more specifically in the mid-2000s License > Proliferation Committee report > (https://opensource.org/proliferation-report): > "Licenses in this group are specific to their authors and cannot be reused by > others. Many, but not all, of these licenses fall into the category of vanity > licenses." > An example given was the PHP license, recently discussed on license-review. > "Deprecated" I think encompasses two concepts from the LP Committee categorization from '06: 1) voluntary retirement; and 2) superseded. In other words, licenses that really ought not be considered prospectively for use, but for which retrospective use should not be considered non-"open source" (in the sense that that terminology means "not OSI-approved").
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