Sonatype Blog » licensing http://blog.sonatype.com/people Sonatype is transforming software development with tools, information and services that enable organizations to build better software, faster, using open-source components. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:53:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How well do you know your open source licensing? http://blog.sonatype.com/people/2012/01/how-well-do-you-know-your-open-source-licensing/ http://blog.sonatype.com/people/2012/01/how-well-do-you-know-your-open-source-licensing/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:39:43 +0000 Terry Bernstein http://www.sonatype.com/people/?p=9791 Choosing components with appropriate licenses is critical to ensuring you realize the benefits and avoid the risks when developing with open source components. But, how well do you know your licenses?

  • Can you describe the differences between permissive, weakly protective and copyleft licenses?
  • Do you understand the ramifications of including copyleft licensed components in your commercial applications?
  • Do you know how component dependencies affect your application’s licensing?

If you want to brush up on your knowledge, please check out our short paper on open source licensing available here.

 

 

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