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April 4, 2024

The importance of open source licensing

Watch this interview with Jim Jagielski of Salesforce

By ATO Team

Jim Jagielski is the Head of Open Source Program Office at Salesforce. He sits down with All Things Open at Open Source 101 in Charlotte, NC and talks with us about open source licenses the importance of considering which license is best for your open source project at the beginning.

Learn about why open source licencing is designed to make it as easy as possible for people to collaborate on software projects and the three main types of open source licenses for most use cases.

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