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This is a **draft**, probably will be controversial, definitely needs wordsmithing. Fixes #380 "No clear message on why to choose an open source license" -- added line under heading Fixes #335 "Feedback from John Sullivan talk on license choosers" -- remaining items were (roughly) to not surface patents at this level, and to surface choice between allowing proprirary/closed source or not Fixes #239 "Consider discussing ecosystems with an already predominant license" (well, it doesn't *discuss* but there's a page for that, unlinked til now) and makes the default recommendation of just about everyone -- use exisitng project/community's license if applicable -- prominent on the site Closes #48 "Proposed modified workflow: make permissive/copyleft and patents orthogonal" though probably not in way submitter would favor. I could be convinced that Apache-2.0 should be featured rather than MIT because of the former's express patent grant, but as it stands I'm not sure the complexity of Apache-2.0 (and for a weak grant, relative to GPLv3) is worth it relative to MIT. There's some value in the first license a user looks at being really easy to understand. The continued popularity of MIT and simialar ISC and BSD-2/3 seems to indicate people want that simplicity. And where are the holdups based on patents supposedly infringed by open source projects under licenses without an express patent grant that could not have happened had those projects been under Apache-2.0? Please educate me! :) Any and all feedback most welcome. |
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| agpl-3.0.txt | ||
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| artistic-2.0.txt | ||
| bsd-2-clause.txt | ||
| bsd-3-clause-clear.txt | ||
| bsd-3-clause.txt | ||
| cc0-1.0.txt | ||
| cc-by-4.0.txt | ||
| cc-by-sa-4.0.txt | ||
| epl-1.0.txt | ||
| eupl-1.1.txt | ||
| gpl-2.0.txt | ||
| gpl-3.0.txt | ||
| isc.txt | ||
| lgpl-2.1.txt | ||
| lgpl-3.0.txt | ||
| lppl-1.3c.txt | ||
| mit.txt | ||
| mpl-2.0.txt | ||
| ms-pl.txt | ||
| ms-rl.txt | ||
| ofl-1.1.txt | ||
| osl-3.0.txt | ||
| unlicense.txt | ||
| wtfpl.txt | ||