The licenses I’ve contributed to don’t rehash old licenses. They represent new choices. Some patch holes in old forms. Some break new ground.
If “license proliferation” means something even stricter, like “no new licenses, even if they do new things”, there’s no good argument for it as a policy, other than protecting those currently “winning” who fear change. Database proliferation is not killing software. Nor is framework proliferation or markup language proliferation or programming language proliferation.
If “license proliferation” means something even stricter, like “no new licenses, even if they do new things”, there’s no good argument for it as a policy, other than protecting those currently “winning” who fear change. Database proliferation is not killing software. Nor is framework proliferation or markup language proliferation or programming language proliferation.