Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license | Linux Today

Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 26, 2011

“In an effort to revolutionize the world of open source, a free
software advocate has submitted a new license to the Open Source
Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and it’s known
as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance License.

“The license is meant to offset the heavy legal component of
open source software. ‘We all want fewer lawyers in software, but
that isn’t always possible,’ he says. ‘We might as well dress up
the ugly legal side of it all with classic Swiss polka.'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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