License comparison

[Ravicher, Daniel B.]

The Free Software Foundation has a pretty good explanation:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html
<http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html> .  In my opinion, the
biggest factor differentiating the open source licenses is the amount of
restriction the license places on the licensee.  One one end, the GPL limits
the licensee to only the option of distributing the software under the same
license.  On the other end are the University licenses (XFree86 Style) that
place no limits on the licensee and what they can do with the software.
Somewhere in between is open source which says that a licensee can do as she
pleases with the executable form, but must make the source code available.
Of course, there are many other significant differences, but this seems to
me to be the biggest and most important.
 
--Dan
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: TARuiz at aol.com [mailto:TARuiz at aol.com]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:43 AM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: License comparison


Does there exist a comparison table or matrix that highlights the
differences 
in most of the open source licenses available out there? 


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