From b9efd2cda79a3f5573ff3f0d59fa07f0555f4af4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger <jacques.hogge@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:14:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add MIT & BSD licenses paragraph --- syllabus/4_licenses.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/syllabus/4_licenses.md b/syllabus/4_licenses.md index 267e3a9..81d5b46 100644 --- a/syllabus/4_licenses.md +++ b/syllabus/4_licenses.md @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The 4 freedoms of Free Software are extremely important. If you don’t have tho The GPL not only provided those 4 freedoms. It also ensured that those freedoms would be preserved, by stating explicitely in the conditions of the contract: should the user redistribute the software to someone else, he should provide those same freedoms to that other person. This concept is named "copyleft", where the only restriction you have to agree to is… to not create any restrictions. You have all the freedoms of the software, except the freedom of taking away some of these freedoms from others. You cannot use a GPL code in a proprietary software. If you do, the proprietary software would automatically be "contaminated" and become GPL. -Some license would soon appear. They would be granting the access to Free Software but without guaranteeing the freedom that comes with it. Examples include BSD and MIT licenses. [TO-DO] +Some license would soon appear. They would be granting the access to Free Software but without guaranteeing the freedom that comes with it. Examples include BSD and MIT licenses. The MIT licence allows anyone to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub-licence and/or sell copies of the software. It is provided "as is", users may use the software at their own risk. As a further obligation, all copies or redistributions of the software must contain a copy of the MIT licence. The BSD licence is similar to the MIT licence. However, the BSD licence may have advertising clauses that require the original authors to be mentioned in any publicity relating to the software. Some BSD licence variants do not contain an advertising clause (FreeBSD) The word "free" should be understood as in "freedom", not as in "free beer". That’s why the french/spanish world "libre" is often used to clarify the meaning. FLOSS means : "Free and Libre Open Source Software". @@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ But "Free Software" was often confused with "Freeware", softwares that are propr Some hackers managed to find the word "Open Source". -## [◄ Previous chapter](https://forge.uclouvain.be/ldricot/lingi2401/-/blob/master/syllabus/3_stallman_and_free_software.md) | [Next chapter ►](https://forge.uclouvain.be/ldricot/lingi2401/-/blob/master/syllabus/5_opensource.md) \ No newline at end of file +## [◄ Previous chapter](https://forge.uclouvain.be/ldricot/lingi2401/-/blob/master/syllabus/3_stallman_and_free_software.md) | [Next chapter ►](https://forge.uclouvain.be/ldricot/lingi2401/-/blob/master/syllabus/5_opensource.md) -- GitLab