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Understanding licenses, bit by bit (2)
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| Thanks to all those who commented on my recent
| proposal to âiconifyâ licenses. That is,
| representing the essential terms of various
| Free Software licenses as icons so you can
| quickly get a feel for their meaning. This is,
| in the current state of software licensing, no
| replacement for actually reading and
| understanding the licenses, but as a mechanism
| for quick (as opposed to deep) understanding
| it seems to work well enough.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=576
Oracle's MySQL acquisition shifts open source database market
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| MySQL is used in most segments of the
| fragmented open source database market,
| including the Web app space, (along with
| SQLite), the desktop space (along with
| Firebird), and in the embedded market.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1377169,00.html
Recent:
That Old GNU Thing: Licensing
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| It's plain, though, that open licenses are both thriving and spreading, and
| this report offers a useful snapshot of just far we have come from the
| trailblazing GNU GPL.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2472&blogid=14
Understanding licenses, bit by bit
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| An idea that is suggested every now and then is
| to look at software licensing and give it a
| kind of âCreative Commonsâ feel; that is,
| present the terms of the license in a pleasant
| and orderly way by means of icons. Now, weâve
| already come to the realization that calling
| something âCreative Commons licensedâ is vague
| to the point of being useless (just âsome
| rights reservedâ). Calling something âFree
| Softwareâ is also vague, but there is a rock-
| solid guarantee at the bottom: the term
| guarantees you, the recipient of the software,
| at least the Four Freedoms. Any Open Source
| software you receive usually means at least the
| Four Freedoms as well. So you need to say which
| CC, which Free Software license, which Open
| Source license.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=542
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