I’m a fan of Open Source / Free Software licenses.  I’m a REALLY huge fan of them in development tools.

So what am I bitching about here?  Developers who fail to understand licenses, but insist on using them without really knowing what the hell they are doing.

I’m going to give two examples – both of them are more common than they should be (hey, just follow any Slashdot conversation involving the GPL or LGPL license to see how common it can be.)  And I hate seeing them – it means the developer in question has never considered closely what they just licensed their software as.

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