Open Source Licensing and Compliance
Open Source Licensing and Compliance Open source software brings speed and collaboration, but it also comes with rules. Licensing tells you what you can do with code, what you must credit, and how to share work. Clear understanding helps teams stay lawful and avoids surprises later. Understanding licenses Licenses fall into broad families. Permissive licenses like MIT or Apache 2.0 let you reuse code with few strings attached. Copyleft licenses like GPL require that redistributions also follow the same license. When you mix code, license compatibility matters: some combinations are allowed, others are not. Always read the license text and note requirements such as attribution, notices, and whether source must be shared. ...