Open Source Software License Changes

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Citation: Sampo Savola, Olli Anttila (2012) Open Source Software License Changes.
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Summary

Describe story, motivation, results of 5 projects that have undergone license changes.:

  1. NetBeans IDE, SPL -> CDDL -> dual (CDDL & GPL v2)
  2. Qt Framework, FreeQT -> QPL -> GPL -> LGPL
  3. MySQL RDBMS, MySQL Free Public License -> GPL and MySQL client libraries, LGPL -> GPL
  4. Mono, GPL -> MIT/X11
  5. Java, proprietary -> GPL+Classpath exeception


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