License FAQ

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Nov 08, 2002, Russell Nelson (nelson at crynwr.com) wrote:
> jasonc at darkpenguin.com writes:
>  > Hello All,
>  > 
>  > Please excuse me if I've overlooked this but I can't seem to find any sort of
>  > FAQ or reference that gives an overview of the various licenses.  Does anyone
>  > know of a good resource that compares and contrasts the major open source
>  > licenses in layman's terms?
> 
> Read Eric's draft for a Licensing HOWTO:
> 
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/Licensing-HOWTO.html

Kudos to Eric for that.  There are a few issues I've got and markup
errors, but it's a long-requested document, and this looks to be well
prepared.

A few surprises in there, even for those who've been around the issues
for a while.

Peace.

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