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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. Shlomi Fish is a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just another in a long line of attention-seeking articles that have no substance and are just argumentative.

    He's like that in real life too, when I met him it was really hard not to just laugh at the guy and his blinkered ideas.

    That's the problem with the internet. In real life, he is shunned (as he should be), but he can broadcast his rantings on the internet and be heard by millions.