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Four licenses should be enough: Bruce Perens on Open Source licensing

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Linux-Magazin Online; By Mathias Huber 		Mail this story
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In this video interview Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens talks to German Linux-Magazin Online. He discusses Open Source licensing and the characteristics of individual licenses such as GPLv2, GPLv3, BSD, Apache and Affero GPL. Besides that he reveals an interesting feature he develops for his Blog technocrat.net and why Debian releases have such funny names. Although this is a German website the video interview is in English.

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DarrenR114 ·
640K should be enough memory for anyone.
Bob_Robertson ·
That is exactly what I thought when I saw the title.

He goes into it a bit better in the discussion, but still rules out the GPLv2 in favor of the GPLv3 for "new" projects.

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