Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:38:36 -0600 I offer my sincere thanks to Intel Corp for this move. This is an awesome piece of leadership and I congratulate you for it. This is a great move!!! Martin +==========================================================+ | Martin Fink | Email: martin.fink@hp.com | | Vice-President | Phone: (970) 898-7076 | | Open Source & Linux | Fax: (970) 898-4302 | | Hewlett-Packard Co. | | | 3404 East Harmony Road, MS43 | Asst: Ingrid Busch | | Fort Collins, CO 80528 | Phone: (970) 898-0782 | +==========================================================+ -----Original Message----- From: Smith, McCoy [mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:55 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: "De-approve" the Intel Open Source License I am the attorney at Intel Corporation responsible for Intel's legal practices and policies relating to open source. Intel has been studying internally the issue of license proliferation. One step Intel would like to take to reduce license proliferation (both internally, and externally, to Intel) is to have the "Intel Open Source License" (aka "BSD License with Export Notice" http://www.opensource.org/licenses/intel-open-source-license.php ) removed from future use as an approved OSI open source license. It does not appear that the Intel Open Source License has found much use (there approximately 25 projects on SourceForge using the license, most of which appear to have been able to use just the plain BSD license without an export notice) and therefore Intel believes the lntel Open Source License could be removed from the approved list without causing significant problems. We do however, think that the "de-approval" of this license should not be retroactive to past uses, since we do not wish to force companies (including Intel) and individuals to have to go through the trouble of re-licensing code they may have released in the past under Intel Open Source License when it was an OSI-approved license. Perhaps a solution would be to categorize this license as "obsolete for future use" or something like that. I hadn't seen anyone on the mailing list make this sort of request before so this may be a new idea that OSI hasn't ever done. If you have any questions on this particular request or need more information, feel free to contact me via the license-discuss list (to which I am now subscribed). McCoy Smith Intel Corporation Legal Department mccoy.smith@intel.com