IANAL, but I like to pretend like I am on the Internets. This past week at NICAR, the discussion of open source licenses came up in one of the evening tracks over a few bourbons, or it might have been wine by that point, but I digress. The general theme: licenses are confusing. I know a little bit about them I’m hoping to shed some light on them for fellow journalisty type developers who are thinking about releasing their code but aren’t sure which license they should use.