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[News] Tensions Over Level of Freedom in Open Source Licences

Just How 'Free' Are Open Source Licensing Models?

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| Confusion and controversy about Open Source licensing did not start
| with current Free Software Foundation efforts to revise the GNU
| General Public License (GPL). Nor will emergence of an acceptable GPL V3
| -- or of a revised Lesser GPL or Affero GPL (thanks Dana Blankenhorn) --
| make OS licensing much less problematical for enterprise users.
| Concerns are both alleviated and complicated by a profusion of
| options that range from GPL's communitarianism to the Common Public
| License's collaborative focus to BSD's laissez-faire liberality.
| The variety of schemes in use creates opportunity: witness, for
| instance, Apache's magnificent munificence. But one must also take
| care to avoid bait-and-switch, pretend Open Source licenses that
| promise freedom in both common senses, liberty and price, but
| ultimately deliver neither.
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http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2007/04/just_how_free_a.html

Update: Apache battles Sun over Java license

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| The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems 
| over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for
| the Apache Harmony project.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070410/tc_infoworld/87559

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