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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Summary

Describes open source licensing landscape as of 2004, with tables contrasting free-ness of licenses from user (called conventional view):

  1. GPL "Everything free all the time"
  2. LGPL "Some of the things free"
  3. BSD "Free but can be made proprietary"
  4. Shared Source "Free to some users"
  5. Proprietary License "It's not free; you have to pay for it"
  6. Proprietary Closed Source "It's not available"

and developer perspectives:

  1. BSD
  2. LGPL
  3. BSD
  4. Shared Source
  5. Proprietary License
  6. Proprietary Closed Source