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OSI Licensing - a year in review

Submitted by LuisVilla on Sat, 2013-03-30 16:41
Since it has been roughly one year since the newest board members were chosen, I'd like to put on my new hat as chair of the License Committee and recap some license committee highlights from this past year. Some things that got done:
  • Revised the opensource.org/licenses landing page to make it more useful to visitors who are not familiar with open source.
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