Licenses and how (not) to love them?

BSD, GNU, MIT, ISC, GPL, what? Licenses are the simplest way to protect your code and the simplest way to lose your code. Do we need to be lawyers to understand the secret world of licenses and protect us? In this talk, we’re going to explore the secret world of licenses and finally understand them!

BSD, GNU, MIT, ISC, GPL, what? Licenses are the simplest way to protect your code and the simplest way to lose your code. Do we need to be lawyers to understand the secret world of licenses and protect us? History taught us to be careful, but do we really need to? In this talk, we’re going to explore the secret world of licenses and realize what they really mean. Let’s finally learn how (not) to love licenses!

While working on a couple of large enterprise projects for companies like EY, we found out that licensing software can be a really big problem. In this talk, I want to go through all the problems that can happen and how to be careful when choosing the right license and the right open-source module. It’s really easy to make a mistake and lose your software. Let’s find out how to be careful!