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Software licensing cheat sheet - Part I

Tomek Poniatowicz on May 12, 2020

If you’ve ever made an app, program, or just written some code, chances are you’re familiar with terms like open source, freeware, and proprietary....
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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

What about ISC license? It is the default for npm init -y (yarn init -y uses MIT).

I think it is more permissive than MIT.

Also, this one is missing from GitHub LICENSE file template.

Nice summary, BTW.

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Ben Halpern

Thanks for this post. Definitely not straightforward stuff.

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Madza

Probably (and sadly) most ignored web related topic out there.
Usually I have to look up every time I see a licence type other than MIT.