31 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Policy
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Open Source Licensing
All open source licenses:
ˇAllow free redistribution,
ˇMake the source code available
ˇAllow derived works (modify the code and offer a “new” program)
ˇMust not discriminate against persons, groups, or fields of endeavor
ˇMust not be product specific.
ˇMIT License
which grants unrestricted
rights to copy, modify, and
redistribute as long as the
original copyright and license
terms are retained.
ˇBSD License
requires acknowledgements to be
made in advertisements and documentation.
ˇThe Artistic
License allows unrestricted rights to copy, use, and locally modify. It allows the redistribution of modified binary programs, but restricts distribution of modified sources.
ˇThe GNU General
Public License (GPL) requires that a program that uses portions of GPL'ed source code must also be licensed under the GPL.