Open-source license compliance for developers: MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL and beyond
Most developers have read the words "MIT License" at least a hundred times and couldn't explain what they actually permit or require. That's fine until the day someone in Legal asks you to audit the licenses in a product you're about to ship, or until you open-source your work and discover it's tangled up with a copyleft library. Open-source licenses are legal contracts. They grant you rights to use, modify and redistribute code — but with conditions. Understanding those conditions matters in three situations: when you're using open-source code commercially, when you're distributing software t
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