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eWeek: LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from Open-Source Licensing, Developers

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

“Open-source licenses are changing, causing ripples in the Linux
community. However, analysts here at the LinuxWorld Summit
conference predict that greater change is due for open-source
development and its business models.

“Before his Wednesday session on licensing issues, Steven Henry,
an IP (intellectual property) attorney with the Boston-based IP
specialist law firm Wolf Greenfield & Sachs PC, spoke with Ziff
Davis Internet News. He said that open-source software licensing is
like ice-cream: many different flavors and types…”

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