786: What Open Source license should you use?

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Scott and CJ dive into the world of open source, breaking down its meaning, benefits, and the various types of licenses you’ll encounter. From permissive licenses like MIT and Apache 2.0 to copy-left licenses such as GNU GPLv3, they’ll help you choose and apply the right license for your project. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:54 Brought to you by Sentry.io. Sentry Open Source. Giving away $500,000 to open source projects. 01:56 What is open source? 03:19 This is not legal advice. 03:51 Source available ≠ open source. No Permission. 06:39 The benefits of open source. 07:26 Educational. 07:52 More Secure. 09:32 Community-oriented. Scott’s Habit Path 11:29 Types of licenses. 12:09 Permissive licenses. 12:26 MIT License. 14:37 Apache 2.0 license. 15:31 Copy Left licenses. 15:58 GNU GPLv3. 18:16 Copy Left + permissive. 18:23 (Mozilla Public License) MPL. 19:31 Business licenses. 19:35 Functional Source License. 23:16 Companies using BUSL. 24:41 Server Side Public License (SSPL). 26:56 Choosing and acknowledging licenses. 29:13 Applying a license to your directory. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. On this Monday Hastie Treat we're going to be talking all about
0:05.8	open source. What is open source? What are the different types of licenses that you should
0:10.7	know about and maybe what should you use on your project.
0:14.8	My name is Scott Tolinsky.
0:15.8	I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is CJ.
0:19.4	What's up CJ?
0:20.4	Hello, not much, doing good.
0:22.4	I'm loving this spring weather here in Denver.
0:25.4	Yeah, me too. I've been doing some major yard work. I was, we have some Perry Winkle
0:30.1	out front, which apparently Perry Winkle invasive, did not know that and I was seeing like it growing I was like this is so beautiful with the purple flowers
0:38.0	but from what I read it can choke out everything else in your your landscaping so you got to keep it under control.
0:45.9	So I was just like ripping out Perry Winkle yesterday.
0:49.2	I wanted to keep some of it, but I want to keep it under control.
0:52.8	Definitely.
0:53.8	Yeah.
0:54.8	And let's talk about open source but before we do let's talk about Century.
0:57.6	This podcast is brought to you by Century and Century is huge into Open Source. Century is Open Source. You can read more about that. is
1:03.0	open source you can read more about that at open century dot i.o in fact you can check out the
1:08.2	century code base for yourself and we're gonna be talking a little bit about
1:11.8	what makes centuries open source license
1:14.3	interesting later on in this episode.
1:16.4	But not only is Century Open Source, Century gave $500,000 to open source maintainers last year, which they kind of do maybe not to that amount,
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