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Fast Guide:	Open source licenses

Last Updated: Jan 05, 2005

What are the terms of the GPL and other open source licenses? How do they affect your developers and your business? Find out in this Featured Topic.
>>	Have a question about an open source legal issue? Ask Scott Nathan!
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Open source group to streamline licenses

(18 Aug 2004)

Group promises to streamline open source licenses over time. More than 50 open source licenses are available to developers -- and some say that's too many.

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NEWS:
>>	GPL warrants heightened attention (SearchOpenSource.com) 15 Apr 2004
>>	Interview: The freedom of the GPL has limits (Golem.de) 29 Jun 2004


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>>	What are the differences between the various open source licenses? ASK THE EXPERTS :What's the difference, in legal terms, between the GNU General Public License (GPL), the Netscape Public License (NPL) and ...
>>	Do multiple distributions require multiple licenses? ASK THE EXPERTS :For a company using Linux and open source software products, does each distribution that our IT people download off the Web ...
>>	How does the GPL affect the licensing and selling of software? ASK THE EXPERTS :When a copyright holder licenses their software under a GNU General Public Licence, does this affect their entitlement to ...
>>	Distributing and licensing software under the GPL ASK THE EXPERTS :If my company builds a product under the GPL and contributes the source code to the open source community, could my company ...
>>	Is the GPL incompatible with U.S. copyright law? ASK THE EXPERTS :My company's IT team has been working with and within the rules regarding the GPL for years. In recent news, I read that SCO ...
>>	What if someone patents software after we start using the free version? ASK THE EXPERTS :What if someone patents the software after we start using the free version?
>>	How can my business use open source without risk of litigation? ASK THE EXPERTS :Aren't businesses who bring open source apps making themselves vulnerable to potential legal claims against those apps by ...

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