Bruce Perens, veteran of open source organizations including the Debian project and the Open Source Initiative, feels open source licensing has “failed,” speaking at this year’s “State of Open” convension (via ITPro). Specific shortcomings according to Perens include GPL circumvention, where companies place restrictions on end products that leverage open source code, which stifles innovation while only the companies get compensated.
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