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Times Online: Free Software? You Can’t Just Give It Away

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2006

“Who could possibly be upset with the Mozilla Foundation for
giving away its Firefox browser?

“One of my roles at the Mozilla Foundation relates to copyright
licensing. I’m responsible for making sure that the software we
distribute respects the conditions of the free software licences of
the underlying code. I’m also the first point of contact for
licensing questions…”


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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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