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title: Blog posts tagged "licenses"
description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing
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url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/licenses
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# Blog posts tagged "licenses"

#### [An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners](https://canonical.com/blog/introduction-to-open-source-licensing)

Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the forum threads filled with advice

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