This article discusses the implications behind the massive proliferation of licenses in open source. The issues and problems, as Larry Rosen raises, are very real. One thing I find interesting is how the proliferation of licenses sort of mirrors the redundancy of packages in a distribution. One the one hand, it is great that there are a gazillion (ok maybe not that many) music players, on the other hand, one could easily imagine that if efforts were put in 2 or 3 of them as opposed to spread over 6-7 you would be getting better quality. Choice can only get us so far…
February 8, 2005
The mushrooming of licensing
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