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## Adding a license
Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present all of them. As such, there are several requirements for a license to be listed on the site:
Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present or catalog all of them. As such, only a small number are highlighted on the home page or <http://choosealicense.com/licenses>, and there are several requirements for a license to be [cataloged](http://choosealicense.com/appendix/) on the site:
1. The license must have [an SPDX identifier](https://spdx.org/licenses/). If your license isn't registered with SPDX, please [request that it be added](https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license-or-exception).
2. The license must be listed on one of the following approved lists of licenses:
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If your proposed license meets the above criteria, here's a few other things to keep in mind as you propose the license's addition:
* Is the license already cataloged? See <http://choosealicense.com/appendix/> for a list of all of the licenses known by the site.
* Licenses live in the `/_licenses` folder.
* The license files should be in the format of `_licenses/[lowercased-spdx-id].txt` (e.g., `_licenses/mit.txt`)
* Each license has both [required and optional metadata](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license-metadata) that should be included.