Business Success with Open Source

Other Types of Licenses

When someone mentions licensing, it’s the open source software licenses that grab the limelight these days. It’s as though people have forgotten (or perhaps never knew) that permission is required to use any sort of intellectual property, and therefore licenses are everywhere and can apply to all sorts of things. Depending upon your business needs, additional types of non-software open licenses may be useful.

Creative Works

The concept of free and open access extends beyond software. The Creative Commons (CC) suite of licenses, for instance, are designed to cover many different types of creative works. Visual art, textual content, audio works, and even data benefit from these popular open content licenses. Stewarded by ...