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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

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These approved licenses can be divided into permissive and copyleft licenses. The latter, the copyleft licenses, come with additional requirements to the permissive license. In addition, you can’t change copyleft terms for the source code. Some of the copyleft licenses are the GNU General Public License (versions 2.0