Softwarové licence

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the most commonly used open source/free software licenses. After brief introduction to the history and defining related terms, there is a classification of licenses by the method of distribution. An analysis of the most common licenses is brought in, followed by presentation of the main points of licensing conditions in the Czech language. The main purpose of this work is to create a transparent methodology for selecting the proper licenses according to defined criteria and the appropriate application. The work contains a simple table of licenses, divided by the selected criteria, which also refers to the detailed description of licensing terms. The main contribution of this work is an understandable description of the software licenses and the aforementioned methodology.