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"Because these innovations and differentiated features can be kept proprietary, manufacturers and mobile operators are protected from the 'viral infection' problem often associated with other licenses." - the use of viral is a major faux pas.

There are a large number of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses, but only a few are widely used. The widely-used licenses tend to be compatible, i.e., the software can be combined to produce a larger work. The following "license slide"

Good article. wish I had this 5 years ago (via Luis)

"In this talk, I explain why smaller software-focused businesses will soon be deserting Apache- and BSD-style permissive licenses for GPL[2 3] and their successors." Interestingly he doesn't mention MPL/CDDL/weak-copyleft.