Showing posts with label license. Show all posts
Showing posts with label license. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

A cheat guide for Software Licensing


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Most of us have encountered these above lines or  term like  GPL,Apache, MIT, Monzilla licensing etc, in regard to software, one way or other in our life.Do you have ever give a thought about why do they exists and which may be the best one for the code or software you are pushing over the free subversion repository (I also, do not care much about licencing term for my personal code too!But for now I have decided to go for "copy left").
So, if you have really spent some hundreds of lines of constructive coding , and had made a some good product out of it or you want to clear  the mist around this various term follow few more line under below.