HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types (InfoWorld) [LWN.net]

InfoWorld covers a LinuxWorld keynote from HP executive Martin Fink. "In a somewhat tongue-and-cheek request, Fink called on IBM to deprecate its IBM Public License in favor of the GPL. In return, he pledged to give an HP laptop loaded with Linux to IBM executives, including IBM Vice President Irving Wladawsky-Berger." (Thanks to Max Hyre)

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HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 12, 2005 17:07 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (2 responses)

Hear, hear.
The only benefactors of the fragmentation of tools and licenses are the prorpietary vendors.
I halfway wonder if the usual suspects aren't triggering forks of various projects, under the house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand theory.
-Chris

HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 12, 2005 23:23 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link] (1 responses)

Nah, people screw it up all by themselves, no need for conspiracies here :)

HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 13, 2005 6:52 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Yep. Number one thing to remember about conspiracies and conspiracy theories:

Never chalk anything up to malice when it can be easily explained away by incompetence.

CPL != GPL

Posted Aug 15, 2005 10:22 UTC (Mon) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually, the Common Public License is very different from the GPL. It is quite similar to the Apache License. (Think BSD with a patent termination clause.) Abandoning it in favor of the GPL is kind of like saying that you don't need a laptop, because I already have a bicycle :-)

But it is true that licenses could be consolidated. Just pick the combinations as examples.

CPL != GPL

Posted Aug 16, 2005 18:23 UTC (Tue) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

...Just pick the right combinations as examples.