You have 5 seconds to tell me the difference between the:
>GNU licence
>MIT license
>BSD licence
>Apache license
>Eclipse license
>Freeware
>Other licenses I should know about
I have created a world revolutionary software, if you don't explain the difference between these to me I will release it as a proprietary software or worse, as open source.
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they have different names
op has sex with banjo and kazooie dolls
then he's a basedboy and I want to jack him off
There's two kinds of license
>access to source code
>no access to source code
literally who gives a fuck about the licensing terms
>GNU
You can do anything except closing the source.
>BSD/MIT
You can do anything.
>freeware
You can use it for free, but not modify and redistribute.
>the rest
Cancer.
I cannot possibly explain the difference in 5 seconds.
What's the GNU licence? Do you mean the GPL and if so version 2 or 3?
MIT let's you place the code within proprietary software, GPL does not. MIT code can be used in GPL but not vica versa
BSD licence, the biggest difference is that it isn't copyleft and you don't need to give back your changes
Apache is similar to MIT and not copyleft
Don't know or care about EPL it's too specific
Freeware depends on the terms of the relevant EULA but at least provides permission to use the software but not necessarily to redistribute it.
>GNU
>Chinese government-promoted license that blocks American business from reusing the code, giving Chinese business an advantage.
FTFY
Based chinks.
You may leave now, Zhang.
ecl and freeware aren't gpl compatible.
GNU gpl: You can modify and redistribute as long as you make your version publicly available.
That's what I said.
I still don't understand how open source is not better than free software as this man claims. I mean how do you even stop the piracy of free software if it can be modified (or not modified) and be redistributed? Obviously, it's not like proprietary software doesn't get pirated, but at least they try. In open source as long as you can see the code and there's nothing malicious in it then what's the problem? Don't like the code? Don't use it. You don't even get any credit for your work if it can just be modified and redistributed?
Richard is a complete retard. He's like a software communist or anarchist of some kind. He even supports Bernie and the change of gender pronouns.
You say "communist" as if it were a bad thing.
GPL: Can't change the license at all.
BSD: Must include the license conditions when distributing.
>communism is bad mmmmkay?
>bernie is le ebil XDD
>le edgy there are only two genders XDDDD
Fuck off, kid.
GPLv2 is a fatally flawed license which will allow independent contributors to projects like linux to extort billions from any company who even remotely violated the license with no remediation.
Linus, et al's. opinions on GPLv2 is keks and I'm glad some random netfilter fag is literally making bank right now because retards didn't move to GPLv3 immediately.
GNU
>You can use my code, but if you fork off of it you must release your source as well
MIT
>Do whatever you want
BSD
>Do whatever you want, but don't drag my name through the dirt (including advertisements)
Apache
>Do whatever you want, but notify me if you made any changes
Eclipse
>You can use my code, but if you fork off of it you must submit your changes to just my code
Freeware
>this is not a licence
>communists on muh Jow Forums
GTFO NIGGER FAGGOT BITCHES
Hi, welcome to Jow Forums. You will find this board is not so endeared to your extreme opinions as are the other boards you've been before, especially Jow Forums. You might wanna tone down the hate speech a little if you wanna be taken seriously here. Have a good day!
>to extort billions from any company who even remotely violated the license with no remediation
So don't violate the license? Like that's literally all you have to do. NOT use their source. Jesus fuck.
Seriously? No one has attached pic related yet?
>le edgy human right violations dictator meme XDDDDD
>le edgy n-word racism
Fuck off, son. Jow Forums is a socialist board.
Can't wait until summer is over and you get the fuck outta here.
Hello victim #350 and #1450 of the communist regime.
First thing the regime does is to kill the useful idiots.
ya, they shouldn't be doing it at all. but the terms of the GPLv2 make it more favorable to settle out before discovery where GPLv3 allows for companies to restore the conditions of the license without litigation by simply complying.
>le communist genocide auction meme
>inb4 gorrillions dead even though the USSR and Maoist China had steadily increasing populations throughout the entirety of their regimes
Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
>projecting this hard
Get fucked, nigger anus licker.
I'm sorry for your brain damage.
>huts amerifat business
amazing, I'll start releasing my tools with the gpl from now on
China would instantly collapse if you removed it's capitalist thrusters, taiwan and hong kong.
and USSR would eventually collapse when they ran out of the money of the others to keep the regime going.
>what is military power
Something that only works while you have capitalist countries around you to steal shit from.
Just use GPL always unless forced to use something else.
That's a funny way to spell MIT :^)
Hello, Chang.
>blocks business from using the code
I consider that a good thing, even though my favorite license is the MIT (expat) license. Code is for coders, not businessmen.
>if the workers produce everything, then everything belongs to them
I agree, comrade!
>>GNU licence
you're free to do anything with our software as long as you distribute the source code
>>MIT license
do whatever you want but if it breaks it's not our fault
>>BSD licence
same as MIT, but has a cooler name.
>>Apache license
>>Eclipse license
i have no idea
>>Freeware
free as in beer
MIT > Apache > BSD > GNU
Rest are irrelevant.
Who cares, I only use GPL
what is gpl?
That just incentivizes them to break the license because if they get caught there's basically no consequences.
It's like if there were no penalties for stealing a TV other than paying for it or returning it
What is the difference between GPL 2 and GPL 3?
Anyone?
>implying you write anything relevant