The 6 Common Open-Source Licenses and What They Mean

Understand the license to know which one to choose

Sara A. Metwalli
Towards Data Science
6 min readJun 8, 2021

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Open-source software is one of the most influential initiatives ever made in the history of computer science and programming. The phrase “open source” means something that’s open for people to use. Thus, open-source software is a type of software open to the public, where the source code can…

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