by Open Source News
October 13, 2010 12:59 AM
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As a member of the Apache Software Foundation, my views on open source tend to gravitate towards more liberal licenses, like the Apache License (v2.0), BSD, or MIT licenses. I strongly believe in enabling companies to take open source software and do whatever they wish to do with it, placing as little restrictions as feasible under current laws. I believe that better communities for software development are enabled by these liberal licensing situations. Rather than creating a single power with significantly more rights, as seen in the ?open core? movement, liberal open source development encourages real, dedicated and sustainable contributions, made by companies with business models other than selling support and ?enterprise features?.
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