🔧 Open Source Licenses Explained: The Good, The Bad, and The "Wait, Can I Actually Use This?"

You've built something cool. You want to open-source it. You head to GitHub and see this:

"Choose a license"

And you're faced with a wall of options:


MIT
Apache 2.0
GPL v3
AGPL
BSD
MPL
ISC
Unlicense


Your brain: "I just want people to use my code. Why is this so complicated?"

Let me break it down in plain English, with real examples of what...