Open Source in Enterprise

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

But try to be aware of the licenses your software and packages are under

Four FOSS freedoms:

  1. View and inspect source code
  2. Run the software
  3. Modify the software
  4. Redistribute the software

General categories:

  • Permissive: You can do basically whatever you want
    • Examples: MIT, Apache, BSD
  • Copyleft: Derivative works must use the same license
    • Examples: GPL, AGPL
  • Not something you want to mess with
  • Things get confusing when mixing licenses