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FOSS ↔ Permissive License to allow mod/redis w/o commercial limit & expose ALL Source Code

aka FOSS, Free-Open-Source-Software

MIT License​

FOSS License to permit Software redis incl propriety commercial software. Must credit author w/o liability

Source: mit

GPL2​

GNU Public License ver 2 Copyleft

Permissive License​

License to allow mod/redis of Software & components

Apache 2.0​

similar to MIT License + legalese to restrict right to use creator trademark & must specify significant mods

use Apache 2.0 over MIT License for more protection for creator patent/credit

References​

  1. Mozilla Foundation ↔ NPO leads FOSS Mozilla Project

  2. MDN Web Docs ↔ FOSS wiki docs for HTML, CSS, JS & Web API

  3. VS Code ↔ Best FOSS IDE, with extensive plugins, FOSS JS Electron by MS

  4. Chromium ↔ FOSS Browser foundation to Chrome & many other variants

  5. Android ↔ FOSS mobile OS built on Linux & Java

  6. recoil ↔ react state management lib FB experimental FOSS project

  7. libtorrent ↔ FOSS Bittorrent Client, C++, lib for many clients

  8. Shadowsocks ↔ Client to route traffic through SOCKS5 Proxy. FOSS. not dead?

  9. Onion Browser ↔ iOS TOR variant FOSS

  10. FLAC ↔ Free Lossless Audio Codec for bit-perfect audio copy with lossless compression. FOSS DRM-less. metadata

  11. Firefox ↔ FOSS Browser by Mozilla

  12. typesense ↔ FOSS ⚡🔍Search Engine X-lang/X-plat Client API - free to self-host

  13. MIT License ↔ FOSS License to permit Software redis incl propriety commercial software. Must credit author w/o liability

  14. npmjs ↔ npm registry Repo to share FOSS JS Lib

  15. DuckDuckGo ↔ mostly FOSS Search Engine

  16. draw.io ↔ FOSS Desktop client built on Electron, JS & Shell - can't view or edit plain SVGs?! - diagrams saved as XML