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Samerhijazi: /* Weak Copyleft Effect */

2024-07-29T11:25:34Z

‎Weak Copyleft Effect

Samerhijazi: /* Strong Copyleft Effect */

2024-07-29T11:25:09Z

‎Strong Copyleft Effect

Samerhijazi: /* Copyleft Licenses */

2024-07-29T11:24:08Z

‎Copyleft Licenses

Samerhijazi: Created page with "=Permissive Licenses= Allow unlimited use and redistribution of software for any purpose. Respective license information, e.g., copyright notices, license terms or the disclai..."

2024-07-29T11:00:38Z

Created page with "=Permissive Licenses= Allow unlimited use and redistribution of software for any purpose. Respective license information, e.g., copyright notices, license terms or the disclai..."

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=Permissive Licenses=
Allow unlimited use and redistribution of software for any purpose. Respective license information, e.g., copyright notices, license terms or the disclaimer of warranty must be provided to the users. Components subject to these licenses may gernally be used. Examples:
* Apache License 2.0
* BSD 2-clause
* BSD 3-clause
* MIT License
* ISC License

==Copyleft Licenses==
All works based on a corresponding OSS component ("derivate works") must be generally under the same license as the original OSS. This may include making the source code availabe under that license free of charge. So called "Copyleft Effect". Examples:
* GPL, LGPL, AGPL (GNU)
* MPL (moz:lla)
* CDDL (Sun)

* Strong Copyleft Effect (AGPL3.0, SSPL-1.0, GPL3.0)
* Weak Copyleft Effect (LGPL2.1, MPL2.0, EPL2.0)

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 ===Weak Copyleft Effect===
 In general, any change triggers the Copyleft Effect
-However, the terms of license provide for one or more exceptions where certain conditions are met
+However, the terms of license provide for one or more exceptions where certain conditions are met.
-E.g., separating modification from original code; using a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the OSS
+E.g., separating modification from original code; using a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the OSS.
-If these conditions are fulfilled, the Copyleft Effect does not apply to other components
+If these conditions are fulfilled, the Copyleft Effect does not apply to other components.
-However, the original component remains subject to the weak Copyleft license
+However, the original component remains subject to the weak Copyleft license.
 Examples:
-LGPL2.1
+*LGPL2.1
-MPL2.0
+*MPL2.0
-EPL2.0
+*EPL2.0

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 * CDDL (Sun)
 ===Strong Copyleft Effect===
-Copyleft effect is generally triggered by any combination of an OSS component with other software, whether itself OSS or proprietary, and by any modification of the OSS component
+Copyleft effect is generally triggered by any combination of an OSS component with other software, whether itself OSS or proprietary, and by any modification of the OSS component.
-An exception exists only if both components can be classified as independent of each other
+An exception exists only if both components can be classified as independent of each other.
-However, this requires a technical and legal analysis of the OSS component in each individual case
+However, this requires a technical and legal analysis of the OSS component in each individual case.
 Examples:
-AGPL3.0
+*AGPL3.0
-SSPL-1.0
+*SSPL-1.0
-GPL3.0
+*GPL3.0
 ===Weak Copyleft Effect===

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 * MPL (moz:lla)
 * CDDL (Sun)
-* Strong Copyleft Effect (AGPL3.0, SSPL-1.0, GPL3.0)
+===Weak Copyleft Effect===
-* Weak Copyleft Effect (LGPL2.1, MPL2.0, EPL2.0)
+In general, any change triggers the Copyleft Effect