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The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation

“I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece
of software was really open source, meaning it was released under
an OSI-approved license.

“The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open
source license to use. Adding to the complexity of the debate is
proliferation of OSI-approved licenses. Now discussions are rising
over the open source licenses that are in the best interest of all
stakeholders of an open source project. In the case of collective
software works there is also the added intricacies of license
compatibility…”

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