On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:18 PM Josh Berkus <j...@berkus.org> wrote: > > All, > > A submitter to License-Review just pointed out that we actually approved > this license back in 2002: > > https://opensource.org/licenses/AAL > > There is absolutely no question that the AAL would not meet our license > requirements today. Both the badgeware requirements and the presumption > of single authorship are prohibitive. Fortunately, the AAL is also not > popular; in fact, I can't even find it in the Github survey stats. > > As such, I move that the license be submitted to the board for removal > from the list of approved licenses, possibly by creating a new category > of "suspended and nonreusable licenses".
I also support removal of this license from the approved list. I'm somewhat curious to look into the archives to see whether AAL was discussed in the later badgeware-heyday timeframe (~2006/2007 or so), or whether it had been forgotten by then. Richard _______________________________________________ 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
