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Understanding Open Source Software Licenses

I am new to the open source world, so please respond accordingly!

I have seen many licenses used, such as the GPL, MIT, Apache. Of course, I do not want to be a lawyer, but at least basic knowledge of all these issues would be useful.

So where to start? Did I just read these licenses? Or is there a book / website that explains all this?

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Although this probably won't help, I recently looked at the open source License category page at www.opensource.org . Take a look at the category of “License Popular and Widely Used or with Strong Communities . ” I think this will be a good starting point.

Although you probably need to be a lawyer to really understand and understand the full implications of each license, you can understand the main differences by looking at them. Not all license texts comply with the GNU GPL, so don't be afraid to look at them. (A good example is the MIT license, you can read it in about 1 minute).

(The GNU GPL, btw., Is seen by some as the most restrictive open source license when it comes to using software in a commercial product. I think this was the first reason they came up with the GNU LGPL.)

A few more pointers to other stack overflow questions here:

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