The decision to choose an open source license can mean different things to different people.
Those considering the issue from an end-user perspective may feel that the decision is irrelevant: the equivalent of a commercial click-wrap license that generally also goes unread.
For this kind of user, the software simply represents a more economical or more productive path to complete a task or obtain functionality.
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http://www.sitepoint.com/article/open-source-licensing
5/16/2007