[License-discuss] Open source license chooser choosealicense.com launched.

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Mon Jul 15 17:51:09 UTC 2013


Some of you may have seen this already -- from Ben Balter (of GitHub):

  http://choosealicense.com/

We may want to consider linking to it from OSI's FAQ, but it would be
great to get people's opinions first.

Ben's announcement is below:

  From: Ben Balter <ben.balter at github.com>
  Subject: Choosing an open source license doesn't need to be scary -- choosealicense.com
  To: mil-oss [probably among other places]
  Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
  
  Launched a small resource today, choosealicense.com to help software
  developers make the decision of which license to use when releasing
  software.
  
  The site itself is open source and I'd love any feedback / pull
  requests you may have. To make the process even easier, there's also
  now a license picker when creating a new repository on GitHub.com
  which will automatically add the license to the project.
  
  * The Site: http://choosealicense.com
  
  * The Source: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com
  
  * Full Background:
    https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license

  Cheers and open source,
  - Ben



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