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Open-source licenses provide the backbone for much of the Internet. It's important to understand not just what they are, but what they require of you when you make use of them.
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You've probably heard of open-source and you probably use open-source software everyday without realizing it,
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but what actually is open-source?
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Open-source is a type of license.
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There are actually lots of different licenses that are open-source licenses and we'll learn about some of those in a second,
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but something that's open-source means that the product is free and it's code is available to the public,
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allowing anyone to tinker with it, learn from it, and create new things based upon it.
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Now I said free—I didn't really mean free in price. You can buy and sell open-source software.
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