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Social news site reddit has joined the ranks of open source projects today, releasing nearly all of its source code on a new developers' site. Reddit isn't the largest of the social news sites, but thanks to its structure (with strong coverage of software news) it has a strong following of software developers.

As we covered earlier today, Facebook has released a big chunk of its platform code as open source - using the CPAL (Common Public Attribution License) for their main license. If you haven't been closely following the proliferation of open source licenses, this is probably a new one to you. As with any open source code, it's smart to understand your rights before you start depending on the new platform - especially since some of the provisions of the CPAL may surprise you.