Intel to stop using open source license (News.com)

[Posted March 31, 2005 by cook]

News.com reports that Intel has told the Open Source Initiative to take its open source license out of the list of approved licenses. "Smith said that it does not want the "de-approval" of the license to be retroactive to past uses, as it does not want to force companies to re-license code. Intel's decision was praised by Martin Fink, the vice-president of HP's Linux division, who recently told ZDNet UK that the number of open source license needs to be reduced from the current figure of more than 50 to "something less than 10"."

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Intel to stop using open source license (News.com)

Posted Mar 31, 2005 22:16 UTC (Thu) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287) [Link] (2 responses)

Just to be clear, this request in no way reflects Intel's position(s) on Open Source. Just that internally they found they were using other licenses, and there were very few external parties using this one as well. Apparently, the request to de-list this particular license was made purely in the interest of fighting license proliferation.

Intel to stop using open source license (News.com)

Posted Mar 31, 2005 23:02 UTC (Thu) by mbp (subscriber, #2737) [Link] (1 responses)

It's a very misleading headline. Better might be "Intel to use standard open source licences"?

Yes, after all...

Posted Apr 1, 2005 3:16 UTC (Fri) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

...if they can publish articles with titles like Microsoft acquires virus scanner company instead of Microsoft poised to decimate virus scanner market, then they can do the same for FOSS.