Bruce Perens: "How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need?"

Posted by: John Lewis on 02/17/2009

Bruce Perens has a great new article over at Datamation yesterday entitled "How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need?" I spend a fair amount of time working with projects and companies on their open source initiatives and on how they should manage them. Bruce has done an excellent job boiling down a lot of the decisions about licensing to a few simple choices.

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About John Lewis

John Lewis

John Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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