There's no such thing as a free (software) lunch
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Citation: Jay Michaelson (2004/06/14) There's no such thing as a free (software) lunch. ACM Queue (RSS)
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Describes open source licensing landscape as of 2004, with tables contrasting free-ness of licenses from user (called conventional view):
- GPL "Everything free all the time"
- LGPL "Some of the things free"
- BSD "Free but can be made proprietary"
- Shared Source "Free to some users"
- Proprietary License "It's not free; you have to pay for it"
- Proprietary Closed Source "It's not available"
and developer perspectives:
- BSD
- LGPL
- BSD
- Shared Source
- Proprietary License
- Proprietary Closed Source