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9 Ways To Avoid Open Source Pitfalls

Till, Andrew | 12/19/09
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If you follow the nine tips, you can avoid problems while still benefit from what the open source software community has to offer.

Microsoft recently rather sheepishly said it would open source its Windows 7USB/DVD Download Tool, a utility that lets users create bootable copies of Windows 7 on flash drives and DVDs. The company didn’t really want to do this, but there wasn’t much choice once developers discovered that the software was built using open source code protected by licenses based on General Public License v2, which requires that the source code be made available to anyone who receives the object code. Microsoft isn’t alone: The Software Freedom Law Center has identified one new GPL violation like this per day since late last summer, says Bradley Kuhn, the center’s technical director. Here are nine ways to avoid open source problems.

 

 

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9 Ways To Avoid Open Source Pitfalls

Andrew Till is VP of solutions management at Teleca, a mobile technology software provider.

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