License Committee Report for September 2009

[Wilson, Andrew]

G. Niccolai wrote:

> As a very final notice, let me re-state that I don't really understand
> the anti-license-proliferation crusade.

License proliferation is bad because it takes what should be a global
commons of free/open source software and artificially divides it
into silos of incompatibly licensed code.

License proliferation is a pain in the tail because of
combinatorial explosion and the overhead of assuring compliance
with the quirks of each license or combination of licenses.

Andy Wilson
Intel open source technology center