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For reference, here is a table of every license described in the choosealicense.com repository.
If you’re here to choose a license, start from the home page to see a few licenses that will work for most cases.
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Open source licenses grant to the public permissions to do things with licensed works which copyright or other "intellectual property" laws might otherwise disallow.
Most open source licenses' grants of permissions are subject to compliance with conditions.
Most open source licenses also have limitations that usually disclaim warranty and liability, and sometimes expressly exclude patents or trademarks from licenses' grants.
- Commercial use
- The licensed material and derivatives may be used for commercial purposes.
- Distribution
- The licensed material may be distributed.
- Modification
- The licensed material may be modified.
- Patent use
- This license provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors.
- This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant any rights in the patents of contributors.
- Private use
- The licensed material may be used and modified in private.
- Disclose source
- Source code must be made available when the licensed material is distributed.
- License and copyright notice
- A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included with the licensed material.
- License and copyright notice for source
- A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included with the licensed material in source form, but is not required for binaries.
- Network use is distribution
- Users who interact with the licensed material via network are given the right to receive a copy of the source code.
- Same license
- Modifications must be released under the same license when distributing the licensed material. In some cases a similar or related license may be used.
- Same license (file)
- Modifications of existing files must be released under the same license when distributing the licensed material. In some cases a similar or related license may be used.
- Same license (library)
- Modifications must be released under the same license when distributing the licensed material. In some cases a similar or related license may be used, or this condition may not apply to works that use the licensed material as a library.
- State changes
- Changes made to the licensed material must be documented.
- Liability
- This license includes a limitation of liability.
- Trademark use
- This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant trademark rights, even though licenses without such a statement probably do not grant any implicit trademark rights.
- Warranty
- This license explicitly states that it does NOT provide any warranty.