Richard Fontana scripsit: > The OSI should have some sort of process for delisting > formerly-approved licenses for reasons of failing to actually meet the > Open Source Definition (or some future replacement of it). That is to > say, the OSI should be willing to admit that it made a mistake, much > as a court (while it might ordinarily apply the policy of stare > decisis) will in certain cases overrule its prior decisions. Clearly > for policy reasons such actions should be exceptional rather than > common, and perhaps should be limited to certain licenses that were > approved during a particular period in the OSI's existence (I would > guess 2000-2005?).
Fine in principle, but do you actually have examples of such licenses that contravene the OSD? (About future revisions, of course, nothing can be said.) -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. --Isaac Newton _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss