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Ask HN: Open-Source Licenses
Is there a good breakdown of all the open source licenses and how they relate to SaaS versus On-premise software businesses. This is especially confusing with javascript as is that "distribution"?
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- thesuperbigfrog 5y agoDescent comparison on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license#Comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license#Comparis...
- ecesena 5y agoMy likely oversimplified take: - Apache2 for things you're building - Apache2, MIT (permissive licenses) for things you build upon and you're going to distribute (including all frontend) - *, ideally avoiding licenses that explicitly prohibits non-commercial, for things you're going to keep inside your walls