licensing
Safeguard articles tagged "licensing" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
19 articles
The MIT Licence Explained: What It Permits and Its Security Implications
The MIT licence is one of the most permissive open source licences in use, and understanding what it allows tells you a lot about the risk you inherit with a dependency.
Open Source Licensing Models Explained: Permissive, Copyleft, and Compliance Risk
Open source licensing models fall into a few families with very different obligations. Here is how permissive, copyleft, and source-available terms affect your compliance.
The MIT License, Meaning in Plain English
The MIT license meaning, stripped of legalese: do almost anything you want with the code, keep the copyright notice, and the author owes you nothing if it breaks.
Software License Models: A Comparison
Types of software license models split into three broad camps — proprietary, permissive open source, and copyleft — plus the newer source-available middle ground companies keep inventing to protect commercial interests.
Commercial OSS License Shifts: An Analysis
From MongoDB to HashiCorp, commercial open source vendors have repeatedly relicensed away from OSI-approved licenses. The pattern reveals a fundamental tension between sustainability and freedom.
Open Source License Types: A Quick Guide for Engineers
Open source license types split into permissive and copyleft, and knowing which one a dependency uses can matter as much as knowing whether it has a CVE.
Apache 2 License: A Quick Reference
The Apache 2 license is a permissive open source license that allows commercial use, modification, and redistribution, with an explicit patent grant most permissive licenses lack.
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