Did your AI add GPL code to your app? What MIT, Apache, GPL and AGPL require
Your AI tool pulls in packages and writes code without ever showing you a license. Here is what the four common open-source licenses ask of you,…
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MIT and Apache-2.0 ask you to keep a copyright notice, and Apache adds a NOTICE file and a note on files you changed. The GPL asks you to license your whole work under the GPL when you hand out…
MIT: keep the notice in all copies. No source sharing
Apache-2.0: keep notices, carry the NOTICE file, mark files you changed. Includes a patent grant
GPL-3.0: hand out copies and the whole work goes under the GPL. Running it yourself does not count
AGPL-3.0: a modified version that users reach over a network must offer them the source
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Did your AI add GPL code to your app? What MIT, Apache, GPL and AGPL require