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Apache, By Any Other Name…

My team and I review tens of thousands of projects, their descriptions, their licenses and how they are referenced each year – it is our passion and our job.  As part of this work, I recently reviewed a set of data in Maven Central and noticed a plethora of different Apache Licenses… or, more precisely, [...]

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What Github Repositories Tell Us About Open Source Development

Thanks to the variety of great, free project hosting sites it has become very easy to publish source code and binaries on the web. This is evident in the hundreds of thousands of users adding projects / repositories on wildly popular sites like github, Google Code, SourceForge, CodePlex, and LaunchPad, to name a few.  With [...]

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