An explanation of the difficulty of solving licenseproliferation in one sentence

[Russell Nelson]

Fink, Martin R writes:
 > >From Glen's message....
 > > W.r.t. license proliferation, I found Marten Mickos' keynote
 > > comment at LinuxWorld interesting (paraphrased): "1000 commercial
 > > packages have 1000 licenses, 1000 open source packages have 50
 > > licenses. This is success, not failure, and doesn't need to be
 > > fixed."
 > 
 > If Marten did in fact say this, then the statement needs clarifying:
 > "1000 commercial packages have 1000 (BINARY) licenses, 1000 open source
 > packages have 58 (SOURCE) licenses."  The difference is dramatic and
 > significant.  Open source is about sharing at the source level....

The statement needs further clarification:

"1000 commercial packages have 1000 (BINARY) licenses, 970 open source
packages have 9 (SOURCE) licenses, and 30 open source packages use
other licenses."

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