We Still Don’t Understand Open Source Licensing
Coding Blocks
Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw, Joe Zack
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2013
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re trying to wrap our heads around open source software licensing. We discuss the main types of licenses (and a few of our favorites!), what it means to violate a license, and take a fun look at a few weird questions. Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to send […]Transcript
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| 0:25.0 | that, welcome to coding blocks. I'm Joe Zach. I'm Michael Outlaw and I'm Alan |
| 0:29.8 | Underwood and today we will be talking about what we still don't understand about open source licensing. |
| 0:37.0 | So it's going to be a big show. I think so. |
| 0:40.0 | So first of all, we wanted to give a disclaimer here. So we are not by any means legal |
| 0:46.1 | counsel and we cannot and will not be held liable for any information provided in |
| 0:52.1 | this podcast. So please seek |
| 0:54.5 | legal advice and talk to an attorney or your weird uncle before making any |
| 0:58.7 | financial decisions on your own project and the information provided in this podcast is meant to be a |
| 1:04.3 | starting point for understanding that there is more out there to open source than just |
| 1:08.5 | free. |
| 1:09.5 | So you're saying that they should take care of advice Yeah not so much. Oh what? All right so. That was a premeditated statement. |
| 1:17.2 | You separate the part about the weird uncle. I don't know where that came from. |
| 1:19.4 | Is that your past speaking? All right, so getting into this, let's talk about just some of the general categories that licenses fall under. |
| 1:29.0 | So you have commercial use, which basically means, you know, you plan on selling the product. You have can be modified can be distributed can be loved sublicensed and can be used for private use |
| 1:41.2 | And then there's also whether you can be held liable or not for code |
| 1:44.8 | that you help distribute. So all there are a ton of licenses out there but we're |
| 1:50.7 | going to hit on the most common ones. |
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