CHAPTER 9 A Pragmatic Guide to Open Source

I’d like to say that I knew this would happen, that it’s all part of the plan for world domination. But honestly this has all taken me a bit by surprise.

—Linus Torvalds, chief architect of Linux, speaking of its success, in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (1999)

INTRODUCTION

Open source licensing is an important software and IT licensing tool. You need to know its opportunities, advantages, challenges, tricks, and traps. This chapter is a practical guide to open source licensing.

IN THIS CHAPTER

This chapter covers the following:

The nature of open source licensing and how open ...

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