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Would You Die To Respect a Software License?

Posted by timothy on from the visit-from-the-compliance-department dept.

Julie188 writes "Some 2,000 licenses cover the 230,000+ projects in Black Duck's open source knowledge base. While 10 licenses comprise 93% of the software, that leaves 1,980-odd licenses for the other 3% — and some of them have really crazy conditions. The Death and Repudiation License, for instance, requires the user to be dead."

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  1. The humorless answer: by FoolishOwl · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary left out part of a sentence:

    It's important to note that the top 10 licenses cover 93% of all projects and the top 20 almost 97%.

  2. Re:Remember not to use Java.... by parlancex · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows server licenses have similar articles stating the OS is unsuitable for realtime applications, such as nuclear reactors. I don't know how they reconcile that with Windows for Battleships exactly.