The MIT license is a permissive open source license that originated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology back in the 1980s. Currently, MIT is the second most popular among all OSS licenses, lagging behind Apache 2.0 with a narrow margin (30% usage for Apache 2.0 vs 26% usage for MIT based on data from WhiteSource).…Continue reading

The Apache license 2.0 is one of the most popular permissive OSS licenses. There are many examples of prominent software products and successful projects licensed under Apache 2.0. The list includes Kubernetes (the famous open source system for deployment and management of containerized apps), the majority of the Android mobile platform and its documentation, Apache…Continue reading