{"id":158,"date":"2007-08-25T07:27:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2007-08-25T07:27:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:27:47","slug":"20070825-foss-license-proliferation-adding-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/25\/20070825-foss-license-proliferation-adding-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/08\/25 FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a story about FOSS Licensing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \tkdawson  \ton Friday August 24, @04:51PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>do-what-i-say-no-me<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=187\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=106\" class=\"topic2\"> \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:E5Rebel@yahoo.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">E5Rebel<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO&#8217;s claims against Linux doesn&#8217;t mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus on the GPL and its virtues, but there are 1,000-plus open source licenses (according to analyst Saugatuck), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworlduk.com\/management\/it-business\/services-sourcing\/news\/index.cfm?newsid=4829\">businesses face having to manage multiple licenses<\/a> within a single open source product. What can be done to minimize multiple-license pain for corporate open source adopters?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is all for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a story about FOSS Licensing: Posted by kdawson on Friday August 24, @04:51PM from the do-what-i-say-no-me dept. E5Rebel writes &#8220;Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO&#8217;s claims against Linux doesn&#8217;t mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}