There must be no limitations of who may use the work or for what purpose (so something like "no commercial use" or "no military use" won't fly with Open Source), It must be possible to create further works based on it,
#Open source software categories code
The source code needs to be made available, To summarize that, in order to be constituted Open Source, The Open Source Initiative (OSI) provides a commonly accepted definition of what constitutes Open Source. Many people think that Open Source simply means availability of the source code of a project, but that does only tell part of the whole story. Phew! With that disclaimer out of the way, let's dive right in.
#Open source software categories software
The goal of this post is to give a short intro to Open Source software licenses and help clear up some general common misconceptions - nothing more, nothing less. I'll also simplify some things and not go into the distinction between Free and Open Source Software or the philosophy behind the Free Software Movement. All of that which I'll explain here is my own understanding and it does not constitute legal advice in any shape or form. This post hopes to help clarify this subject a bit more.īefore we dive into the gritty details of OSS licensing however, a word for my own sake: I am not a lawyer but merely an Open Source Software developer with almost two decades of experience. We've all heard the term Open Source, and many of us will also have come across the term Open Source License, but what these things actually mean, how they come together and why you as an OSS dev should even care is still a mystery to many. Without a license attached, your software project might as well be not be published at all, since without a license no one can actually utilize it - more on why in a bit. Licenses are a fundamental part of developing Open Source Software (OSS). But what is a license and why do you need to choose one?
That sounds important, it's right there in the repository creation dialog after all. Right at the end there it says "Choose your license".
If you've ever created a repository on GitHub, you will have seen this repository creation dialog.
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