Distribution
FOSS licenses are wonderful because they give anyone in the world permission to use, modify, contribute to, and share in the benefits of millions of software packages. If a package is under an OSI-approved license, your company may use it however needed to operate and innovate the software for their business. If the software your company creates is for internal use only, you don’t even need to pay much attention to the licenses under which those FOSS packages are released beyond whether the licenses are OSI approved. But the moment your company distributes software, that distribution triggers the terms in every one of the FOSS licenses of the packages you used to create that software. Your company then needs to comply with those ...
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