IT-SDK-OSS
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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)
