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Choosing a License
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Open source.
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There are plenty of `open source licenses <http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical>`_
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available to choose from.
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In general, these licenses tend to fall into one of two categories:
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1. licenses that focus more on the user's freedom to do with the
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software as they please (these are the more-permissive open
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source licenses such as the MIT, BSD, & Apache), and
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2. licenses that focus more on making sure that the code itself —
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including any changes made to it and distributed along with it —
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always remains free (these are the less-permissive free software
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licenses, for example, the GPL and LGPL).
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The latter are less-permissive in the sense that they don't permit
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someone to add code to the software and distribute it without also
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including the source code for their changes.
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To help you choose one for your project, there's a `license chooser <http://three.org/openart/license_chooser/>`_,
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use it.
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More-Permissive
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PSFL
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MIT / BSD / ISC
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MIT (X11)
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`````````
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New BSD
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```````
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ISC
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```
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Apache
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Less-Permissive
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LGPL
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----
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GPL
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---
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GPLv2
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`````
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GPLv3
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`````
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