A Bit of a Licence

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Mon, 10/26/2009 - 09:45

One of the striking aspects of the free software community is its obsession with licences. It's as if within every hacker there's a lawyer struggling to get out.

But maybe it's not so surprising; as Larry Lessig reminded us, “code is law ”, and the reverse is also true in the sense that the licence adopted has a big impact on how the software is produced.

That explains, in part, why recent discussions of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun...

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