Academic or Reciprocal?
The academic and reciprocal licenses described in this book so far have been very different from each other. This is at least in part because the two major categories of licenses—academic (BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.) and reciprocal (GPL, MPL, CPL, etc.)—have very different roots in the open source community, and they developed from different core philosophical beliefs about software freedom.
Proponents of academic licenses demand the freedom to incorporate open source software into any kinds of works, including proprietary works. Proponents of reciprocal licenses believe that freedom lies in a large public commons of software that grows through the contribution of derivative works back to the commons.
Because of their very ...
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