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Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? (IT Management)

Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? (IT Management)

Posted Feb 16, 2009 23:49 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? (IT Management) by mheily
Parent article: Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? (IT Management)

While you might not meet all of those licenses, I assure you that those of us who have worked on creating Linux distributions that can be legally distributed meet every one. And more. This is why it was essential for Debian to have the DFSG. I couldn't tell people what was OK to include and what was not otherwise.


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