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Developers Beware

Just because Google crawled it, unless it somehow manages to display the specific license the source code is under, as a developer you can't toss together any code that's "open source". There are dozens of open source licenses, and most of them have horrid legal "gotchas" that prevent the code from being mixed together. For example, you can't use GPL code with BSD code (under the original BSD license).

This is a big sore-point to me for "open source." Instead of trying to navigate through the legal minefield of licenses, it's almost easier (read safer) just to start from scratch. The problem gets compounded because lots of companies decide to create their own license so they can call it "open source" and get their press coverage. Yet, their licenses make it nearly impossible to do anything with code in any other project.

Just my $0.02

Posted by: Yensi717   Posted on: 10/05/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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