diff --git a/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt b/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt index db22023..887a370 100644 --- a/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt +++ b/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: Apache License 2.0 spdx-id: Apache-2.0 redirect_from: /licenses/apache/ source: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html -featured: true description: A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 8f70441..365ff23 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -6,43 +6,45 @@ title: Choose an open source license permalink: / --- +
An open source license protects contributors and users. Businesses and savvy developers won’t touch a project without this protection.
++ Use the existing project’s license. +
++ If the existing project doesn’t have a license, ask its maintainers to add a license. +
+- The MIT License is a permissive license that is short and to the point. It lets people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don’t hold you liable. + The MIT License is short and to the point. It lets people do almost anything they want with your project, including to make and distribute closed source versions.
{% include using-sentence.html license-id="mit" %}
- The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive license similar to the MIT License, but also provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users. -
-- {% include using-sentence.html license-id="apache-2.0" %} -
-- The GNU GPLv3 is a copyleft license that requires anyone who distributes your code or a derivative work to make the source available under the same terms, and also provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users. + The GNU GPLv3 also lets people do almost anything they want with your project, except to distribute closed source versions.
{% include using-sentence.html license-id="gpl-3.0" %} diff --git a/licenses.html b/licenses.html index db4010c..97d69bb 100644 --- a/licenses.html +++ b/licenses.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class: license-types title: Licenses --- -
Open source licenses grant permission to everyone to use, modify, and share licensed software for any purpose, subject to conditions preserving the provenance and openness of the software. The following licenses are arranged from one with the strongest of these conditions (GNU AGPLv3) to one with no conditions (Unlicense). Notice that the popular licenses featured on the home page (GNU GPLv3, Apache License 2.0, and MIT License) fall within this spectrum.
+Open source licenses grant permission to everyone to use, modify, and share licensed software for any purpose, subject to conditions preserving the provenance and openness of the software. The following licenses are arranged from one with the strongest of these conditions (GNU AGPLv3) to one with no conditions (Unlicense). Notice that the popular licenses featured on the home page (GNU GPLv3 and MIT) fall within this spectrum.
{% include license-overview.html license-id="agpl-3.0" %} {% include license-overview.html license-id="gpl-3.0" %}