# Licensing Your Software

DevFeed: [Licensing Your Software](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/licensing-your-software-40708.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/licensing-your-software/>)

Published: 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [free software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/free-software.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [copyright](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/copyright.md>), [free-software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free-software.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-license](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-license.md>)

## AI overview

A practical overview of software licensing options, including public domain, open source licenses, and free software licenses. It explains how these approaches affect users' rights to use, modify, copy, redistribute, and publish changes to software.

## Source excerpt

I build software products and write on the Internet.