Is my concept in open source license correct?
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I would like to justify whether my concept in the open source license is correct, as you know that, misunderstanding the terms may lead to a serious law sue. Thank you.
The main difference among the open source license is whether the
license is copyleft. Copyleft license means allow the others to
reproduce, modify and distribute the products but the released product
is bound by the same licensing restriction. That means they have to
use the same license for the modified version. Also, the copyleft
license require all the released modified version to be free
software.
On the other hand, if any others create derived work incorporating
non-copyleft licensed code, they can choose any license for the code.
The serveral kinds of license and comparsion
GPL is a restrictive license. Software requires to released as GPL
license if that integrate or is modified from the other GPL license
software . The library used in developing GPL license software are
also restricted to GPL and LGPL , proprietary software are not allowed
to employ (or complied with) in any part of the GPL application.
LGPL is similar to GPL , but was more permissive with regarding allow
the using of other non-GPL software.
BSD is relatively simple license, it allow developer to do anything
on the original source code . The license holder do not hold any legal
responsibilities for their released product.
Apache license is evolved from the BSD license. The legal terms are
improved and are written by legal professionals in a more modern way.
It covers comprehensive intellectual property ownership and liability
issues.
Also, are there any popular license beside these? Thank you
