Minding your P's and Q's with Open Source
On Friday, December 9th, the International Herald Tribune brought up some critical aspects of the appropriate uses of open source software which is ever more pressing as open source continues to go more main stream. Open source compliance continues to be difficult issue, often compounded by the large and varied range of licenses that governed the use of the software that may come with the kind of strings attached that you may not realize.
The following is a snap-shot story from IHT, highlights a well known violation of probably the most stringent of all open source licenses, GPL:
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