This research is to support all my needs to give a talk at FISL11, that will happen in the end of this month.

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Introduction

Day by day I'm asking myself what are the problems around of Open Source Software Licenses and why there are some flames around those.

I'm involved with Open Source more than 10 years, I've started to play with FreeBSD 3.0 and I've had some play with Linux Kernel 1.0.31.

I'm a FreeBSD developer, I got in the FreeBSD project in 2007 and I've been working on several projects the last big one was called as Disc-OS and it was released over GPL license.

Although at any rate, I never had time to investigate about software license, till now.

Details

Some references, just to get some ideas about what others talk about: * Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project (Read) * Building Products with FreeBSD (Read) * FreeBSD: An Open Source Alternative to Linux (Read) * The Open Source Definition (Annotated) (Read) * Various Licenses and Comments about Them (Read) * Understanding Open Source Software - by Red Hat's Mark Webbink, Esq. (Read) * BSD v. GPL, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2008 (Read) * Por que FreeBSD(IBM) (Read) * Não existe software livre (Read) * Newsletter periódica da Fundação FreeBSD. (Read) * Open Source Part 1 * Understand the GPL and BSD * Important Notes * GNU - The BSD License Problem