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titleSoftware Licensing Guides Series

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Risk mitigation against potentially harmful legal threats or behaviours by free-software licences

Frequently used protective and permissive licenses


AGPLv3

GPLv3

GPLv2.1

LGPLv3

LGPLv2.1

MPL-2

BSD

SaaS/cloud

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

Tivoization

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

Patent trolling

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

Proprietization

Yes

Yes

Yes

Partial

Partial

Partial

No

Granularity/reach

Project

Project

Project

Library

Library

File

N/A

Trademark grant

Yes

Yes

?

Yes

?

No

No

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license)

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