Everything noted below is professional advice not legal advice. I’m not a lawyer, so check with your legal department or similar before you use open source software, regardless of the license. In terms of software licensing, I have a simple principle: Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. Let’s face it, most developers don’t understand licensing. They […]

Update: To be fair, a great deal of inspiration for this post came from Ed “Funkatron” Finkler and his session at phpWorks 2008 Picachu pitch-at-ya peek-at-you lightning talk called “Users are Assholes” and later by Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s lightning talk called “How to get kicked off my Project.” Thanks for the fodder guys! On all […]