I've shipped three CRM forks under three different licenses, and the license decision has caused me...
I've shipped three CRM forks under three different licenses, and the license decision has caused me more long-term pain than any code decision I've made.
If you're picking a codebase to fork, or deciding what to release your own under, this post is the cheat sheet I wish I'd had in February.
TL;DR
MIT, Apache 2, BSD: ship whatever you want, attribute correctly, move on
GPL v2/v3: anyone you distribute the binary to gets the source
When we open sourced Neural Inverse Cloud, the easiest choice would have been MIT. Most developers...
A twelve-month worksheet turns an open-source announcement into an ownership, support, security, and exit decision.
As far as I know, AGPL doesn't cover Large Language Models. I think it should, but it...
Introduction Open source applications thrive on collaboration and shared innovation, but...
AI tools trained on GPL and copyleft code can reproduce it without attribution or license terms. Here is what the mechanism looks…
It has become relatively cheap now to take an existing open source project with a permissive license,...
