Business Models and Licenses

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Licensing

• Basic open source definition
  
• Keep it simple – don’t make your customer think about the license
  
  • Mainstream licenses
    
  • If you need to get your license approved – the OSI process
    
  • 100% open source is best
    
• License as weapon
  
  • BSD or GPL?
    
  • GPL the closest thing to IP you can get in open source – in some ways, it’s even better
    
    • Benefit customers while clubbing competitors
      

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