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OSS Licensing & Legal Issues - Coggle Diagram
OSS Licensing & Legal Issues
Licenses (giấy phép)
Types
Proprietary
Specific to a company or a project
Copyright holder keeps most of the rights
Often adds additional restrictions on what users can do
Commercial or freely available
Open source
Follow the definition of OSS
Patent Grant or No Patent Grant
Permissive (Non-protective)
MIT, BSD-2-Clause (or 3), Apache-2.0
Không có nhiều yêu cầu đối với phần mềm phân phối
Restrictive (Copyleft/Protective)
GNU licenses => copyleft
strong
GPL, AGPL
weak
LGPL, MPL, EPL, CDDL
Which License to Choose?
Properties to Consider
Open Source License Comparison
Patents (bằng sáng chế)
A mechanism for protecting intellectual property
Refers to the right granted to anyone
Must be filed for in each nation
(Software) Patents
Express Patent Grant with License
EXPLICITLY GRANTED
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDE
Add a grant of patents in a separate file
Copyright (bản quyền)