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Licenses

In the area of Open Source and Free Software, various basic types of licenses that we can use effective are available:

Copyleft Licenses The original form of Open Source licenses. GPL and LGPL are the most common Open Source licenses. The objective is Free Software, whose modifications are also free.

BSD Licenses Apache, Python, Zope, X, and OpenLDAP are BSD-type licenses. In the case of these licenses, the changes must not only remain free, but can also be proprietary.

Mozilla Licenses The possibility of sales with proprietary programs. In contrast with BSD licenses, however, solutions on the basis of Mozilla-licensed sources must remain free.

q.v.: growing by reusing Open Source Free Software