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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"?


  👤 ecesena Accepted Answer ✓
My 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


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