Intel Requests OSI to Pull OS License 16
BoomZilla writes "Intel has
asked to have its name removed from a
list of open source licenses promoted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). In an e-mail to the OSI this week,
McCoy Smith, senior intellectual property attorney at Intel, asked to have the
"Intel Open Source License" (also known as "BSD License with
Export Notice") taken off the list of licenses approved by OSI and that
can be used in future projects. Intel had found that the license hadn't been
used inside of Intel for about five years and that there were only a handful of
places outside the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that used it as well. OSI has
been debating ways of consolidating its list of nearly 60 approved permits -
nice that Intel is helping the process along..."
Re:Reader request OSTG to pull /. posting license (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Reader request OSTG to pull /. posting license (Score:2, Informative)
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
The only real news today is a dupe. (Score:2)
Serious Question (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Serious Question (Score:1)
No... On April 1st it is the last post.
wow... (Score:1)
Prince License (Score:4, Funny)
OSI reports that Intel has asked that's its name be removed from a list of open source licenses. They would like it to be replaced with an unpronounceable symbol that resembles a network of CPU registers. The license will henceforth be referred to as the License Formerly Known As the Intel Public License.
Hahaha! (Score:2)
What?!?
Screw it.
I don't even care.
I'll check real news sites tomorrow to see if this was true.
Re:Mis-information campaign (Score:3, Insightful)
This story is too dull to be a joke.
Re:Mis-information campaign (Score:2)
Seriously, though.. (Score:2, Informative)
The actual article is dated March 31, not April 1.
If you read into it, it says:
It isn't like projects using this license will just disappear overnight. Most likely, we won't see any new projects using this license, though.