https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/licensing/ Recent content in Licensing on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/open-source-licenses-explained/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/open-source-licenses-explained/ <p>There is a moment that arrives in nearly every sizable project sooner or later. Someone — usually a lawyer or a nervous procurement officer — asks: “What licence should this actually carry?&quot;</p> <p>Until then everything had gone beautifully. Code written, tests green, repository pushed. And suddenly people are arguing about copyleft, patent clauses and derivative works as if everything depended on it.</p> <p>In a certain sense, everything does.</p> <p>Licences are not formalities. They are the rules of engagement under which software exists. Whoever ignores them plays anyway — by rules chosen by somebody else.</p>