Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Open Source License Comparison

The table below shows a major comparison of the open source license. There are a few more minor difference but I had enough legal reading for one day.

ApacheGPLLGPLBSDMIT
Disclaimer of liabilityxxxxx
Preserve Copyright Noticexxxxx
Can be used in commercialclosed source softwarex-*xx
Can be sublicensed*--*x
Prevents the authors name from being used to promote derived worksxxxx-


x = yes
- = no
* = under certain circumstances, yes

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