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Open Source Licenses #5

Closed taikedz closed 2 years ago

taikedz commented 2 years ago

Talk Topic

Lightning talk : a quick overview of Open Source Licenses, what you can, must, and cannot do

Talk Description

Quickly overviewing

License versus contract
What is an open source license
- Four Freedoms
The Most Common Licenses
- MIT License, and BSD (3-clause, 4-clause)
- Apache License
- LGPL v3
- GPL v2.1 and v3
Relicensing
License compatibility
WTFPL and why to swap it for MIT

Talk Audience Level

Novice

taikedz commented 2 years ago

Delivered March 2022