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layout: default
permalink: /about/
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title: "What's this about?"
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always usually evaluates to false Remove "If you have questions or issues, it is always best to consult a legal professional." It's not always best, especially considering it's costly and for most finding one knowledgable about open source licensing will be difficult. If it were always best, the site should consist of <h1>Consult a legal professional.</h1> But seriously, claiming one should consult a legal professional is no way to make choosing an open source license non-scary.
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GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code.
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always usually evaluates to false Remove "If you have questions or issues, it is always best to consult a legal professional." It's not always best, especially considering it's costly and for most finding one knowledgable about open source licensing will be difficult. If it were always best, the site should consist of <h1>Consult a legal professional.</h1> But seriously, claiming one should consult a legal professional is no way to make choosing an open source license non-scary.
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If you already know what you're doing and have a license you prefer to use, that's great! We're not here to change your mind. But if you are bewildered by the large number of open source license choices, maybe we can help.
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## Not comprehensive
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This site is not a comprehensive directory of open source licenses. On the [homepage](/), we break it down into just three licenses. The vast majority of projects will likely be fine choosing from one of these three. Just in case you have specific needs not covered by those three, we also highlight a [few other licenses to consider](/licenses/), and have a page about [licenses for non-software projects](/non-software/).
Appendix/table of all repo licenses; closes #388
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See our [appendix](/appendix/) for a table of all of the licenses cataloged in the choosealicense.com repository and the links below for *even more licenses* that you **do not** need to learn about when choosing a license for your project.
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### Additional resources
include list of resources
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focus additional resources on choosing an open license, not lists of licenses Fixes #490 which was concerned that the additional resources list did not include all like items, I understand driven by concern that the SPDX license list includes non-open licenses. So does the FSF license list -- worse, it even recommends some. This fix focuses the list on resources about choosing an open license, not resources listing a bunch of licenses. Fortunately both OSI and FSF have pages directly addressing choosing a license. I've removed the SPDX and English Wikipedia lists.
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* Open Source Initiative's FAQ on [Which Open Source license should I choose to release my software under?](https://opensource.org/faq#which-license)
* Free Software Foundation's [advice on how to choose a license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.en.html)
Edit 'additional resources' on about page - add FSF list - slight rewording, eg OSI list not exactly comprehensive - add Cowan wizard - rm TLDRLegal; can't seem to keep junk/spam additions off its home page
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* [License differentiator](http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/apps/licdiff/) ([source](https://github.com/ox-it/licdiff)) from [OSS Watch](http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/)
New home for John Cowan's license selection wizard Waybacked in https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/commit/c008a5fbef641d49c83d5d61a8a5c66428efeb40, Cowan now has a new home, updating to that.
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* [Free/Libre/Open Source license selection wizard](http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/floss/) by John Cowan
Link to Open Source Guide on The Legal Side of Open Source https://opensource.guide/legal/ one of a set of guides released today https://github.com/blog/2318-announcing-open-source-guides For now just adding as an additional resource, eventually should be worked into home and/or licenses pages.
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* [The Legal Side of Open Source](https://opensource.guide/legal/), an Open Source Guide covering licensing and related issues
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## Help us improve it
about.md: remove unneeded html entities.
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Choosealicense.com isn't just about open source, the site itself is open source as well. See something you think could be done better? Feel free to [fork the project](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com) on GitHub and submit a pull request. We'd welcome your improvements.
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## Disclaimer
always usually evaluates to false Remove "If you have questions or issues, it is always best to consult a legal professional." It's not always best, especially considering it's costly and for most finding one knowledgable about open source licensing will be difficult. If it were always best, the site should consist of <h1>Consult a legal professional.</h1> But seriously, claiming one should consult a legal professional is no way to make choosing an open source license non-scary.
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We are not lawyers. Well, most of us anyway. It is not the goal of this site to provide legal advice. The goal of this site is to provide a starting point to help you make an informed choice by providing information on popular open source licenses. If you have any questions regarding the right license for your code or any other legal issues relating to it, it's up to you to do further research or consult with a professional.
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