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Open Source Licensing: The Right (or Wrong) Tool for the Job

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“The big news for today is definitely open source licensing,
with SugarCRM going GPLv3, the OSI approving SocialText’s Common
Public Attribution License, BMC selecting the BSD license for its
open source projects, and the newly re-named xTuple introducing yet
another license.

“Despite the proliferation of open source licenses, what these
announcements demonstrate is that license choice is about choosing
the right tool for the job (even if you arguably get it wrong, but
more of that later)…”


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