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At some point in the distant past, there used to be a site that had a huge matrix of licenses, that allowed you to look across one axis for one license, down the other axis for a different license and then basically read the consequences of combining code with those two licenses.

I liked that site and for the life of me cannot find it again. Things like "can I copy Apache licensed code into this LGPL code" were answered really simply, even when the answer included comments around making changes available, impact on copyright notices etc.

Does anyone know of anything similar these days? Don't get me wrong, the site linked here is great, but for me, at least, the fuzziness is in the legalities of combining code...




Here might be something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Licenses_colored_by_licens... ... look at the section "Key" for further explanation.


I'm not familiar with the site you're thinking of, but the Open Source Initiative has one of the largest treasure troves of license information I know of: http://opensource.org/licenses


I think this may be the site you were referring to: http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare

I was looking up OSS licenses the other day and happened upon it.

Edit: It looks like sandyarmstrong also posted it below.


That's not the site I was thinking of, but to be honest, it seems to pull off the concept a lot better than the one I remember :)

Thanks!




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