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any recommended resources to learn more about licenses, differences and when to consider what?

While I don't know if this site offers advice, when I need a quick summary that explains the license the first place I check is https://tldrlegal.com

The Open Source Initiative[1] is a good place to start.

1 - https://opensource.org/

I'd like to know what is the most Stallmanite license out there. The kind that corporate lawyers would like to stay far away from, that forces downstream projects to be as open as the source.

Affero GPL. If the public can touch the product or service, you have to provide the source. My company avoids incorporating any GPL-licensed libraries, even those with linking exceptions.

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