Image by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Whats in a License? There are a lot of software licenses out there, and there are a lot of opinions about licenses out there. Sometimes I noti…

It seems people have a hard time understanding the implications of licenses, so I have written a something to help with that.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    10 days ago
    1. AGPL. Strictest. You want a strict license. Don’t let people take advantage of you. I see no good reason to pick GPL when AGPL exists.
    2. LGPL. If you want people to be able to use it (but not modify it) without their code having to be FLOSS as well. Still quite strict relatively with everything below.
    3. Apache. Permissive license. If you really want a permissive license, this is the one to go for.
    4. MIT. Permissive but less explicit. Okay for super short code.

    Avoid at all costs CC0. CC0 explicitly does not give patent rights. MIT implicitly does.