A Brief History of Free and Open Source Software Licensing
Open source software licenses may not excite people as much as open source code, but they have been just as important in keeping software free. Open source licensing as we know it today didn't always exist, however. It evolved as programmers developed more sophisticated strategies regarding their intellectual property.
Below is a look at the major milestones in open source licensing history. It doesn't cover every twist and turn. That would take a book.
But it outlines the major arc in open source licensing strategies, from the days when free software promoters disdained licenses altogether through present-day battles about software licensing and the cloud.
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