Gartner: Software Users Must Fight for Open Source
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Myk Gumapos
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2007-05-22 07:47 AM
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"Vendors increasingly want to tweak the meaning of open source to include, for example, attribution licensing, which says the user can modify and redistribute the software, and make derivative versions based on it only if they give the author credit," said Gartner analyst Brian Prentice.