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:InfoWorld: Too Many Open Source Licenses?
InfoWorld: Too Many Open Source Licenses?
Mar 8, 2005, 02 :30 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (7437 reads)

(Other stories by Neil McAllister)

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers. That's great for pilot projects and research, but when it comes to enterprisewide deployment, those same licenses can become a hindrance.

"Although open source is most famously associated with the GNU General Public License, the GPL is hardly the only choice available. As of this writing, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved 58 licenses as having met its definition of open source..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
To avoid having a problem caused by a si ...   avoiding single point of failure problems   
Charles Hixson
Mar 8, 2005, 02:43:29
 
Right answer: One for each product of ea ...   And how many commercial licenses exist?   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 8, 2005, 03:20:11
 
Right answer: One for each product of ea ...   Re: And how many commercial licenses exist?   
Daniel Carrera
Mar 8, 2005, 06:01:37
 
I find it more difficult with all the cl ...   Too many closed source licenses   
Hans Schou
Mar 8, 2005, 06:58:41
 
There's lots of GPL, a fair amount o ...   Not that many in practice   
Rufus Polson
Mar 8, 2005, 16:47:04
 
If my unique, handy-dandy Open Source li ...   Simple   
Ed Craig
Mar 8, 2005, 17:35:05
 
> Right answer: One for each product of  ...   Re: Re: And how many commercial licenses exist?   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 9, 2005, 04:01:28
 
how we can understand open source GPL if ...   How we can understan GPL   
A.A.R
Mar 9, 2005, 11:45:48
 
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