only rainwater and pure grain alcohol: Various software licenses in a single line

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Various software licenses in a single line

Back in 2003, I posted this handy cheat-sheet for various software and source code licenses. Several recent events have prompted me to repost this, as a Public Service to the Internet. Apologies in advance for the painfully old meme, but good ideas transcend time.

HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN. Here are a number of popular software and source-code licenses, expressed as one-liners in an easy-to-understand format:

GNU General Public License (GPL):
ALL YOUR SOURCE ARE BELONG TO EVERYONE
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL):
ALL OUR SOURCE ARE BELONG TO EVERYONE
Netscape Public License:
ALL OUR SOURCE ARE BELONG TO US
BSD-Family licenses (New BSD, Apache 1.0, Apache 2.0):
ALL OUR SOURCE ARE BELONG TO YOU
SCO software license:
ALL YOUR SOURCE ARE BELONG TO US
Typical monopoly-era Microsoft End User Licensing Agreement:
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO DECIDE MAKE YOUR PAYMENT

2 comments:

Marstein said...: And Google's licence?
SOURCE IS OURS - ALL YOUR DATA BELONG TO US; January 10, 2009 9:33 PM
Kevin Williams said...: Apache License?; February 6, 2009 2:37 PM

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