How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need?
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Bruce Perens asks on Datamation how many open source licenses you need: "The Open Source initiative has, to date, approved 73 licenses. How many do you really need? If you're a company or individual producing Open Source software, no more than 4. And you can get along with just 2 of them."