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Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are …

Operating Environment
essential industry background for reading open software licenses

Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing | Ben Balter
There's lots of internet lore around open source licensing. An attorney and open source developer answers the most common questions.



An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software
What if open source software had an organization like ASCAP for distributing royalties?
First Read: The Fair Source License
Text and my first thoughts on a new, non-open source form license

Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
I put things here so they are on the internet

en:license [CoopCycle]
This License grants rights to study, execute, modify and redistribute the Software or its derivatives to any Licensee, but reserve the commercial use of these rights to the only entities defined in Article 3. Any redistribution or online interaction with the Software or its derivative must be done accordingly to the License’s conditions.

