Open Source Licences
Many of you have heard about open source software. You might have also heard about the open source platform Github. When I first uploaded code on Github, I chose a license randomly. I thought of what use a open source licence might have, but i was wrong. When one builds such a tool or product, that can be forked by others to build their own versions by tweaking and changing its source code, one needs to decide an open source license for it. Today I am going to talk about the various open source licences. What is a LICENSE? Licenses provide rules and guidelines for others to use your work. Open source licenses help others to contribute to your work or project without seeking special individual permission to do so. The different open source licencses There are numerous licenses . I will list out the most commonly used Licenses. All these licenses are OSI (Open Source Initiative ) approved licenses, except the last one. 1. Apache License 2.0 : It is one of the most popular...