
A history of open-source licensing from a lawyer who helped blaze the trail
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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Do You Have a Favorite License?
Early licenses were written from a mission driven perspective of softer developers who wanted to foment open source. But maybe, as you pointed out, didn't have a ton of legal training to craft the language in that way. I was on the drafting team for mosilla too, and i think that was very good work product. It's very important to use licenses that everyone understands. So even if there were a perfect license out there that nobody used, it wouldn't be the right license.
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