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The YouTube video Open-Source License Explained in 5 minutes has very nice summary of different types of opensource licenses.

• You can use a copyleft licensed source code in your commercial software under the condition to share your source code.
• You can use a weak copyleft licensed source code in your commercial software under the condition to share the modified source code.
• You can use a permissive licensed source code without sharing anything.

Tools for Scanning Licenses

FOSSology

ScanCode

Tern

Python Specific

LicenseCheck

pip-licenses

python-license-check

Rust Specific

cargo-deny

cargo-license

Communicating License Information

• The Software Package Data Exchange

• Reuse Software

References

• Open-Source License Explained in 5 minutes

• Dealing with Open Source Licenses