Great news! Any resources for recommendations/ranking the licenses? I would love to learn more about them to help further guide my choices
The GNU project has a great write up: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
tl;dr (though if you are interested its a good read) Client software == GPLv3 small projects are ok to be Apache v2 Server software == AGPL
the rest of the guide is more for devs and projects with recomendation on licenses for libraries and docs.
That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
As a user the license doesn’t matter for you. Even if you contribute back to a project, you will be able to use your changes in the project.
The license only matters if you want to redistribute a changed version yourself or use parts of it in your own software.
Good to know, thank you!
AlternativeTo is anyway mandatory, an must have in the Bookmarks, Apart of the possibility to filter and find the best soft and services, also show interesting tech news and large lists of recommended apps and services made by the community.
Thanks, I already use AlternativeTo & know why it’s worth using. I’m asking what license I should look for in a software since their are multiple license types & you can now filter for them
Not so easy to answer, depends on the project and what you want to do with it. The only what you can do is reading the TOS of each license and use those which best fits your needs. If it is for your private use, the license is pretty irrelevant.
Good to know, thank you!
