All You Need to Know About the Most Popular Open Source Licenses

November 21, 2017

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Get a real-deal look at the most popular open source licenses from the people that know licenses best. WhiteSource specialists have scanned OS repositories and projects to see what developers are using and what they're calling their go-to open source licenses.

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