On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Huan "Komrade" Truong <[email protected]> wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/11/why-google-chose-the-apache-software-license-over-gplv2.ars > > ASL, which is widely used in the open-source software community and > has been approved by the Open Source Initiative, is a permissive > license that is conducive to commercial development and proprietary > redistribution. Code that is distributed under the ASL and other > permissive licenses can be integrated into closed-source proprietary > products and redistributed under a broad variety of other terms. > Unlike permissive open-source licenses, "copyleft" licenses (such as > the GPL) generally impose restrictions on redistribution of code in > order to ensure that modifications and derivatives are kept open and > distributed under similar terms. > > Permissive licenses like the ASL and BSD license are preferred by many > companies because such licenses make it possible to use open-source > software code without having to turn proprietary enhancements back > over to the open source software community. These licenses encourage > commercial adoption of open-source software because they make it > possible for companies to profit from investing in enhancements made > to existing open-source software solutions. >
Cám ơn bác Huan Truong, theo tui hiểu thì lisence này cho phép dùng lại code OSS trong các sản phẩm nguồn đóng và thương mại, và không cần phải công khai các thay đổi, cải tiến của mình cho cộng đồng OSS ? Hay có các hạn chế nào đó mà tui hiểu sai ? PADUNG _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
