Not everyone is a software laywer (neither am I) so heres some basic info for people who voted GPL only in case they unwittingly ruin their own livelyhood.
GPL - Highlight by the "copyleft" clause that states if you use any GPL licensed stuff your project have to be open source too. The result would be millions of Java professionals (unless you work for an open source project) would lose their jobs overnight and sun would lose a lot of Java revenue and declare bankrupt.
LGPL, Apache, CDDS all similar, free for modification and proprietary usage. main differences being how they require documentation of modifications. For the other minor clauses, you either need to be very interested in software licensing or a software lawyer to want or need know. In which case this comment wouldn't be long enough to explain... read the actual license and research yourself...Wikipedia is a good place to start. All these license would not prevent forking.
In Dual licensing - You apply both licenses to your stuff and note that users can choose either. Users can then user your stuff under License A OR License B. |
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