Abstract
The paper deals mainly with a brief discussion of the history of the public licenses assuch. It then explains the origins of a dichotomy in public licenses, where public licenses were created around the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Open Source Initiative (OSI).
Both groups of public licenses are formed and managed by associations based on completely different value bases. The FSF is based on the idea that sharing the source code is a service to the public and the public has the right to such code (that is, more attached to publishing the code and distributing it free of charge).
While OSI is more business-oriented and does not hide the creation of open source versions and paid proprietary versions of programs (forking). Last, but not least, the paper answers a simple question - whether this will affect the interpretation of the public licenses within the Czech legal order.