Linux licensing

Few discussions of Linux happen without the topic of licensing being mentioned. Mostly this happens for a few reasons: because Linux licensing is so different from nearly all of its competitors that it plays a significant role in business decisions, because it is the largest and most prominent open-source product on the market regardless of category, and because it arose in popularity in conjunction with the rise of the open-source software movement and quickly became its poster child. Most people instantly connect (and sometimes even confuse) Linux with any mention of open-source software, which leads to a lot of confusion as there are millions of other equally open-source software packages out there and when mentioning closed source software, no one jumps to any one comparable poster-child software package and assumes that that is what we are talking about. Linux, for whatever reason, gets treated differently than pretty much any other product on the market in how...