The disadvantages of using permissive open source licenses include limited protection against proprietary derivatives, the risk that competitors can use the code without sharing improvements, the potential for reduced community contributions, and the possibility of code base fragmentation.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: FOSSA
  The Complete Guide to Open Source Licenses - FOSSA

Sources

• The Complete Guide to Open Source Licenses - FOSSA fossa.com FOSSA via serper

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• permissive open source software licenses concept