Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by dredmorbius on Saturday June 13, 2015 @06:24PM (#9712941)

There are a few other variants. Affero, as noted, also the Mozilla Public License, which applies on a file-by-file basis and allows for proprietary code to be integrated into a MozPL licensed work as a whole and distributed.

But otherwise, yes: GPL, LGPL, BSD/MIT are the principle cases.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by the_why_of_y on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:14AM (#9714765)

I'd prefer if people forget about BSD/MIT and use ALv2 instead, for the patent clauses.

With the following preferred licenses you'd get explicit patent clauses, in ascending order of copyleft-ness:

ALv2 MPLv2 LGPLv3 GPLv3 AGPLv3

Perhaps the Eclipse Public License would also be an alternative at the same level as MPLv2 but I'm not familiar with it.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by dredmorbius on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:38AM (#9717843)

Fair point.

ALv2 == Apache License, v2.

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