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Permissive Software Licenses

Permissive licenses are also known as BSD-style or Apache-style licenses. They contain minimal requirements about how the software can be modified or redistributed, clauses that are not existent in public domain or public domain equivalent licenses.. Permissive licenses are more…

IPSec

Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) is a standard of IP security extensions that comprises a collection of protocols and that is used as an add-on for IPv4 and integrated into IPv6. Each IPsec VPN uses two security associations, one for encrypted…

Document Store Database

Document store database are NoSQL databases. List of Document Store Databases Document stores are specifically designed to handle JSON-like documents. Document store solutions: Apache CouchDB Apache CouchDB is a document store database. It is FOSS, under an Apache 2.0 license.…

Contributor License Agreement

A contributor license agreement (CLA), sometimes called participation agreement, is a document that defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to a project or organization. CLAs are typically used on FOSS projects. Reasons to use a CLA…

Software Licenses

A software license is a written or digital document accompanying the software the defines the terms and conditions to use it. It is based on copyright laws, that protects the source code behind software. This post enumerates the main categories…

Open Core Software Licenses

This post is an introduction to open core software licenses or open core licensing (OCL). This is part of a series of articles whose main post is about software licenses. Definition of Open Core Open core software contains free and…