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The Experts’ Legal Guide on Free Software

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Feb 15, 2008

“On Valentine’s Day, the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center)
published a legal guide, ‘A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and
Free Software Projects,’ for open-source developers and
organizers.

“The Legal Issues Primer 1.5 covers four main areas. The first
looks at copyright questions and how the most important open-source
licenses handle copyright. Next, the authors take on what issues to
consider in deciding how to legally organize an open-source
developers group…”

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