Comparison of Open Source Licenses from GitHub

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grokru July 23, 2013 at 18:16

Comparison of Open Source Licenses from GitHub

The GitHub team has launched a new project - Choose A License , which will help you choose the right Open Source license for your project. The main page briefly presents the most popular ones - MIT License , Apache License and GPL .

On the site you can read the full texts of the licenses, as well as see their visual comparison:

Also on the site are presented Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, LGPL v2.1, BSD (3-Clause) License, Artistic License 2.0, GPL v3, LGPL v3, Affero GPL , Public Domain (Unlicense), Eclipse Public License v1.0, BSD 2-Clause license and No License.

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