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jazzbiker:
Greetings for everyone!

Does anybody knows some free licenses with the usage limitations examples? Just curious, I've heard that there exist licenses with the limitations on, for example, usage the sources for so-called machine learning. Or maybe You've met an examples of the free software with the limitations to use in some countries?

Thanks in advance and the best regards for all TinyCore lovers and makers!
 

GNUser:
Hi, Andrey. I've referred to this page many times through the years, hopefully it helps you too:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

jazzbiker:
Hi Bruno!

Nice link, thanks. Very comprehensive list and understandable descriptions. Probably what I was asking for can not be named "free license". Licensing is confusing topic. For example so-called Anticapitalist license (never heard about it) is considered non-free. While GPLs are considered free, while they are demanding certain constraints and limitations. So some limitations are free? I'm not clever enough to understand some things )

Paul_123:
Here is an even bigger list.

And a helper website.  https://choosealicense.com/

GNUser:
Hi, Andrey. The list I shared has information on both free and non-free licenses. The list is extensive but even the most extensive list would likely be incomplete due to the scourge of license proliferation.

Free software licenses generally come in two flavors: permissive and protective (a.k.a. copyleft)

Permissive licenses (e.g., BSD, MIT, Apache) are the least restrictive. A consequence of this is that permissive licenses favor the developer's freedom in the sense that a developer can take a piece of free software, tweak it, and re-release it under a proprietary license.

Protective/copyleft licenses (e.g., GPL) impose some restrictions on developers and therefore favor the user's freedom. The restrictions on developers basically amount to this: Derivative works must also be free software. The intention is to ensure that users' four freedoms follow the software wherever it goes.

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