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Post open source

Post-open-source software (POSS) is a term used in discussions of source code published without an explicit software license. The expression gained attention in 2012 after analyst James Governor described some younger developers as treating licensing and governance as unimportant when committing code to GitHub. Richard Fontana later used POSS more…

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