choosealicense.com and GitHub’s license picker

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Richard Fontana
Sep 17, 2013

Red Hat’s IP/Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel Richard Fontana takes a critical look at the new site GitHub license picker site choosealicense.com, commending GitHub for making it open source, but questioning several aspects of the site, saying: “It will be interesting to see what effects, if any, the license picker will have on the licensing of GitHub-hosted projects.”

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Richard Fontana

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