Does Open Source Licensing Matter?
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| While the title of the panel was "Why Open Source Licensing Matters," panel
| moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco, said
| it does matter, though maybe not for all the people on this panel. Asay
| recently helped to move Alfresco from a SugarCRM-type attribution license to
| the GPLv2.
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| Though the panel didn't agree on the value of OSI-approved open source
| licensing, it did agree on the value of the open source model.
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| "Open source as a community matters," Asay said.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3693501
FOSS and the philosophers
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| I used to think of myself as something of a rare bird -- a philosopher and
| software developer with a keen interest in the Free and Open Source Software
| (FOSS) movements. But as I discovered at last month's North American
| Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP) conference in Chicago, there are many with
| similar interests.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118426
Related:
Twisting the Meaning of 'Free'
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| According to CESC Ltd chief information officer Subroto Das, “There is
| nothing called free software”. I beg to differ.
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| In an article titled, Free software wars re-ignite (warning: many pop-ups),
| Indranil Chakraborty writes about the continuing war between the Free/Open
| Source Software movement and the non-free software camp. It really has not
| re-ignited; it continues.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/node/30
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