Maybe that helps:
http://www.sitepoint.com/open-source-licensing/

Rocco

On 31/08/2011 11:48 AM, Okalany Daniel wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> There are many open source licences, I can't even start to list them,
> and I doubt they are all similar/the same, otherwise they wouldn't be
> so many.
>
>  
>
> So my question is,  if software is licenced under the GNU Lesser GPL
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html> (I read that), but didn't seem
> to answer my questions, so I looked it up and found
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1
>
> And I still don't quite understand it.
>
>  
>
> So if I download software licenced under the GNU Lesser GPL, can i:
> - Change it, and not open source the changes
>
> - Distribute/Sell the changed software without releasing the source
> code (Credits stay in the source code)
>
> - At which point do I fully own the changed software, e.g after
> modifying 60% of the source code/never
>
>  
>
> If I can't do the above, which licences would allow me to do so?
>
> PS: The most easily understandable licence I found was:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
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