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[$] Motivations and pitfalls for new "open-source" licenses
Tuesday March 12, 2019. 09:57 PM , from LWN.net
One of the bigger developments of the last year has been
the introduction of licenses that purport to address perceived shortcomings in existing free and open-source software licenses. Much has been said and written about them, some of it here, and they are clearly much on the community's mind. At FOSDEM 2019, Michael Cheng gave his view on the motivations for the introduction of these licenses, whether they've been effective in addressing those motivations, what unintended consequences they may also have had, and the need for the community to develop some ground rules about them going forward.
https://lwn.net/Articles/782862/rss
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