Open source software license for Dog Day

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Author: User

From http://coolshell.cn/articles/4657.html#more-4657

Do you know how many open source software licenses are available in the world? GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache? There is a Web page on GNU, which records almost all the licenses for open-source software. Many of them are really TMD, including open-source, commercial, software, and documentation, you don't want to watch it anymore,ProgramThe members are really busy. However, there are several mainstream ones-GPL, BSD, MIT, Mozilla, and Apache.

So, do you know how to differentiate them? How to choose them? There is a complicated figure here, where I am teasing these complicated licenses (I don't translate, but this picture is a bit of a blow off)

The following is another figure. This figure is from here. It is not a spoof, but it is very simple to explain how to select an open-source license:

 

Finally, just like the programming languages of Bt Referer, I want to introduce two unique open-source software licenses to you --

1. wtfpl

The full name of wtfpl is what the fuck Public License. This license order is Nb from its name. Its license is as follows, which is quite short and completely free, is your open-source software confident in using this license?

Do what the fuck you want to public license version 2, December 2004 copyright (c) 2004 Sam hocevar <sam@hocevar.net> everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed. do what the fuck you want to Public License Terms and Conditions for copying, distribution and modification 0. you just do what the fuck you want.

The last sentence -- you just do what the fuck you want to is really awesome. How can we say it's a good time? There is a feeling of watching American movies. This is one of the reasons I like this license, that is, you do not have to control the copyright, or you do not have to give up the copyright!

2. dbad

Dbad stands for don't be a dick. I will not explain what Dick is. You can look up the dictionary by yourself. What is Dick defined in this license,

A person whoDoes notRespect the time and energy that have been investors in the project ,....... A dick is nearly always selfish, but not necessarily with deliberate intent; some dicks are merely thoughtless .......

That is, people who talk nonsense about the project. The most important part of this License is that it does not limit the copyright of the software, but limits the behavior of people in software development. I really like this license. (See Section 4 limitation)

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