{"id":2025,"date":"2011-09-20T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2011-09-20T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:12:27","slug":"dave-johnson-a-simple-explanation-of-open-licenses-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2011\/09\/dave-johnson-a-simple-explanation-of-open-licenses-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Johnson: A Simple Explanation of Open Licenses (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I ran across this classic from 2006 and just had to make sure to remember it.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Johnson humorously and insightfully reduces open source licenses to this over-simplified form by creating three classes of licenses: (a) Gimme Credit, (b) Gimme Patches, and (c) Gimme it ALL! <\/p>\n<p>I cannot say it better than <a href=\"http:\/\/rollerweblogger.org\/roller\/\">Dave Johnson<\/a> does in this classic 2006 blog post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rollerweblogger.org\/roller\/entry\/gimme_credit_gimme_fixes_gimme\">http:\/\/rollerweblogger.org\/roller\/entry\/gimme_credit_gimme_fixes_gimme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the blog comments.  The second one in particular that refines the over simplified notion of GPL making it clear that &#8220;Gimme All!&#8221; only matters when you redistribute.<\/p>\n<p>And actually, with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affero.org\/oagpl.html\">Affero GPL<\/a>, the list should be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gimme Credit! (Apache, BSD, MIT)<\/li>\n<li>Gimme Patches! ( MPL, CDDL, LGPL)<\/li>\n<li>Gimme it ALL! if you redistribute. (GPL)<\/li>\n<li>Gimme it ALL! (Affero GPL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That somewhat completes <a href=\"http:\/\/rollerweblogger.org\/roller\/\">Dave&#8217;s<\/a> list nicely and brings it up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this classic from 2006 and just had to make sure to remember it. Dave Johnson humorously and insightfully reduces open source licenses to this over-simplified form by creating three classes of licenses: (a) Gimme Credit, (b) Gimme Patches, and (c) Gimme it ALL! I cannot say it better than Dave Johnson does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}