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Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield

Posted by timothy on from the well-it's-more-like-a-small-blackberry-thicket dept.

dotancohen writes "Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi Fish gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one's FOSS project, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."

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  1. Writing Freecell? by stillnotelf · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we're rewriting freecell, shouldn't that be a license minesweeper, not a license minefield?

  2. simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Simply ask that man with the beard.

    1. Re:simple by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Simply ask that man with the beard.

      If it is a minefield, it may indeed be a good idea to ask Osama bin Laden. After all, he should have experience in explosives.

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.