Choosealicense.com

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A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

Overview

ChooseALicense.com is a website that provides information about popular open-source licenses. The goal of the website is to help users make informed decisions about the licenses they choose for their projects. The website catalogues select open-source licenses and uses them to provide a license chooser, license detection, a licenses API, and to display license descriptions and metadata. The website aims to be accurate, non-judgmental, and understandable, and it collaborates with other licensing best practices and standards projects.

Features

  • Accurate and non-judgmental information about open-source licenses
  • License chooser and license detection
  • Licenses API
  • Display of license descriptions and metadata
  • Additional information about licenses common to specific communities and situations

MacOS Installation

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