I think you may be confused as to how OSS licenses work, and to a larger extend the OSS community. I'd recommend you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". On the

I think you may be confused as to how OSS licenses work, and to a larger extend the OSS community. I'd recommend you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". On the specifics of license, I guess good ol' Wikipedia works just fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license. Now your teachers didn't focus on entrepreneurship because statistically speaking, most people who go through college (or any kind of education) will work for somebody else. I'd add to this that school is, in most cases, not about learning practical skills. It is about learning how to learn, developing mental tools and acquiring a knowledge foundation that will help you work with others. Debatable approach to education, maybe. But beware of thinking that everybody want or should be prepared for the career path you seem to be in favor of.