By Sylvia Carr
Published: Monday 20 November 2006
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John H
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Tunbridge Wells
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Lawyer
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All good sound stuff, but it creates a potentially misleading impression that open source licences are uniquely confusing and varied.
There are far, far more than 30 forms of proprietary licence, and proprietary licences have to be read no less carefully than open source licences. It is not that open souce is a legal minefield - it is that software licensing is a legal minefield, and one in which too many people already make the mistake of thinking software licences are all much of a muchness.
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