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usablica / front-end-frameworks

A collection of best front-end frameworks for faster and easier web development.
http://usablica.github.com/front-end-frameworks/compare.html
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Better licensing info #11

Open webmaven opened 11 years ago

webmaven commented 11 years ago

While licenses such as Apache and GPL are well-enough known to not require a link, adding one would be helpful (I suggest using opensource.org as a canonical location).

OTOH, the 'Free' license is completely confusing. What is being indicated here? Free for non-commercial use? Free as in Beer? Free as in Speech?

webmaven commented 7 years ago

So, the license names still don't link to the actual licenses.

Meanwhile, some more confusion has crept in with the Creative Commons licenses: several frameworks are just labelled CC, which doesn't actually tell you what the license is (one is correctly labelled CC-BY).

The options are CC0 (zero requirements, essentially public domain), CC-BY (attribution), CC-BY-NC (attribution & non-commercial only), CC-BY-SA (attribution & share-alike), and CC-BY-NC-SA (attribution, non-commercial only, & share-alike).

These following licenses are unlikely to be used, given that the whole point of using them is to create derivative works: CC-BY-ND (attribution & no derivatives), CC-BY-NC-ND (attribution, non-commercial only, & no derivatives).

As you can see, there is no license that can be identified simply as CC, and the rights/restrictions indicated by the different licenses vary enormously.