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Licenses - Coggle Diagram
Licenses
Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)
Public Domain License
Anyone is free to use and modify the SW
E.g. SQLite, ImageJ
Permissive
Few restrictions or requirements for distribution or modification of SW
Can be distributed under same license
E.g. BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) license and MIT license
LGPL
You can link to open source libraries within your own SW
Resulting code can be licensed under any other type of license
Compromise between strong copyleft GNU and more permissive license such as BSD and MIT
GNU Lesser General Public License
Copyleft
Restrictive - known as reciprocal licenses
No right to modify or sublicense
E.g. GPL (Gnu Public License), Irfanview, Winamp
If modified and distributed then the new product should allow the same
Propietary
Cannot copy, modify, distribute or sublicense
E.g. Windows