short, practical guide to open software licensing
Operating Environment
essential industry background for reading open software licenses
Revisiting the Open Source Business Model
In the past few years, many companies have come to me asking for help drafting a “new open source license.” As a rule, drafting a new open source software license is not a good idea, s…
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.
Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
I put things here so they are on the internet
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 …
Licenses
Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
Choose an open source license
Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
Introducing the Permissive License Stack
We believe open-source values are critical to free societies, especially in the digital age. To that end, we’ve created a new approach to licensing invoking the principles of the Default Open Pledge
RSL: Really Simple Licensing
The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet
Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch
New alternative category to 'closed source' could help companies monetize software in the open -- without going all-in on open source.
