Meet Mark Radcliffe: The Man Who Rules Open Source Law | Linux Today

Meet Mark Radcliffe: The Man Who Rules Open Source Law

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2007

“As one of his clients told us, ‘Mark Radcliffe is the
law when it comes to open source software.’

“Radcliffe, an attorney at giant DLA Piper, has lurked behind
some of the most important shifts in the open source world over the
past few years. He helped Sun Microsystems open source the Solaris
operating system, developing Sun’s CDDL (Common Development and
Distribution License) license. He crafted SugarCRM’s controversial
attribution license and then did similar work for a handful of
significant open source players…”


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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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