The left hand path/right hand path motif applies to open source software. There are two main open source licenses, with a big difference between them.

There is the GNU GPL (General Purpose License). This license requires anyone who uses the source code to also publish the source code of their software. Thus ensuring that any derived work also remains open source.

Then there is the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) license. Code provided under this license is free to use and requires no obligation to the original author. Derived work can be closed source and even commercialized.

You can probably infer which is left and which is right.

Funny enough, all the code I've released I've decided to do it under the MIT license.

The most popular open source software project under the GPL is GNU/Linux.

Under the MIT license it is FreeBSD. The mascot for FreeBSD is a devil.

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