Article 4AY0A [$] Motivations and pitfalls for new "open-source" licenses

[$] Motivations and pitfalls for new "open-source" licenses

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jake
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One of the bigger developments of the last year has beenthe introduction of licenses that purport to address perceivedshortcomings in existing free and open-source software licenses. Much hasbeen said and written about them, some of it here, and they are clearlymuch on the community's mind. At FOSDEM2019, Michael Cheng gave his view on the motivations for the introduction of these licenses,whether they've been effective in addressing those motivations, whatunintended consequences they may also have had, and the need for thecommunity to develop some ground rules about them going forward.

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