Sharing open source software just got a whole lot easier. The Open Web Foundation has announced the availability of the Open Web Foundation Agreement, and some huge corporations - namely Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo - have given the arrangement their figurative seal of approval.
It's important to note that this isn't some superfluous, feel-good pact. Eran Hammer-Lahav, Director of Standards Development at Yahoo and President of the Open Web Foundation explained in a post on
He then continued, "These licenses are hard to read and spread over many pages full of terms even many lawyers don't fully understand. There was also no suitable standalone agreement available for companies and communities to use when making their work available, forcing them into long and costly legal negotiation between the contributors."
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