Licenses

You allow others to use your IP in exchange of royalties

• licensing doesn’t take much money.

Royalties

• paid quarterly

Open Source

Pros

• prototype
• internal tools
• SaaS tools
• use it if will not be distributed

Cons

• never use AGPL license.. can force you to release all your code to the public

contracts

• permissive
• weak copyleft: eg BSD (Unix), MIT.. it’s mine but you can use it
• strong copyleft: GNU, LGPL remain proprietary,