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Licensing for the Federal Government

Given that the US Federal Government can't hold a copyright for any work it produces, does it make sense to use an open-source license, or should items be released explicitly unlic …
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How do people handle open source version management?

We have several projects using a particular open source set of tools. When the project starts, the developers tend to go to the appropriate forge and download the current version o …
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What are the “best” licensing choices for cloud providers SDKs and software?

I talk with many cloud providers (be it any of the three asses, IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) who're developing SDKs or tool-kits for developers to use to build on-top of their clouds/platf …
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Why would you choose the Apache License?

Companies such as Google favor the Apache License (http://www.apache.org/licenses/) for a lot of their use cases. Why would you choose Apache versus GPL style? And, why would you …
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Who’s using the APGL?

Mårten Mickos mentioned the other day that he's seeing "more open source companies starting to use the Affero GPL 3 license." Which projects are using the AGPL?
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How do I choose a license for my project?

The Open Source Initiative has over four dozen open source licenses available. Which one should I use for my software? How do I choose?
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Where can I find a list of open source licenses?

Is there a comprehensive list of open source licenses?
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What is license proliferation?

Every so often - in conjunction with Google Code, for example - someone brings up the topic of "license proliferation." What does that mean?