What about Users?
I will begin in Chapter 4 to explain the broad categories of open source licenses—particularly academic and reciprocal licenses—that are available today. I follow that in Chapters 5 through 9 with detailed license descriptions of the major open source licenses.
Fortunately for users of open source software, none of the distinctions between academic and reciprocal licenses, or among the various project and company licenses described in this book, matter much. Individual users don't often have to concern themselves with the intricate conditions of these licenses, or warranties, or patent defenses, or other esoteric legal issues. Users of open source software typically do not create and distribute derivative works, so a reciprocity ...
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