Open Source Software Licenses: Perspectives of the End User and the Software DeveloperFear, uncertainty, and doubt are major factors when a company first considers using open source software. Programmers tend to love open source software. They say it is stable, cheap, and available online. They ...
Open Source Software Licenses for Cisco AXP 1.1
FOSSA's Editorial Team creates content on the wonderful world of open source software. The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a member of the GNU family of open source licenses, along with the GNU GPL v2, the GNU GPL v3, and the GNU AGPL License. Like the others, it was pub...
Open Source Used In AnyConnect Security Mobility Client Administration Guide 4.4This document contains licenses and notices for open source software used in this product. With respect to the free/open source software listed in this document, if yo...
The BSD family of open source software licenses has a long history. The first version was created at UC Berkeley in 1980 to accompany the university’s new UNIX-based operating system, the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD OS. This initial version, known as the 4-Clause BSD license, ...
Yet, understanding of open source software values is scarce. Companies and businesses will often ignore their licensing requirements, and even many developers aren't aware of the licenses they operate under. Whether you're a developer, tech enthusiast, business leader, or just an interested party,...
Open source software licenses Again, Stallman’s GPL stipulated that anyone could rewrite his software however they saw fit, as long as the resulting code was published free for all to use. In this way, the GPL copyleft license created a new kind of quasi-public-domain intellectual property,...
Open source software licenses Again, Stallman’s GPL stipulated that anyone could rewrite his software however they saw fit, as long as the resulting code was published free for all to use. In this way, the GPL copyleft license created a new kind of quasi-public-domain intellectual property,...
The following contains the licenses and notices for open source software used in this product. With respect to the free/open source software listed in this document, if you have any questions or wish to receive a copy of the source code to which you are entitled under the applicable free/...
I also think that for a lot of the early open source (OSI), permissive licenses aligned with their notions of how free speech should operate. How many of us have hear the “not free as in ‘beer’, free as in ‘speech'” bit?