<html><body><div id="edo-message"><div></div><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">If it’s your code, (looks like it from the link) you can license it as you see fit. </font><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The confusion here (and it’s common) is that the term ‘license’ is</span><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">u</span><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">s</span><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">e</span><span style="text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">d in two different ways. </span></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">1. In plain meaning, a license is a statement of permission. If you put a license on your code, you are granting permission to others to use your code - thank you for that. </font></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">2. However, in commercial licensing contexts, people purchase or request licenses since they are viewed as limited tokens that you pay for and get. </font></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Since this is an open source context, licensing means something you, the author, can give us, not something you get. </font></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;">Gil Yehuda</span><br></div><div id="edo-message"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></div><div id="edo-original"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:1ex 0 0 0; height: min-content; border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:0.5ex;"><div>On Sep 6, 2023 at 10:25 AM, <<a href="mailto:bhargab.analytics@gmail.com">CS with BHARGAB</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br>I have written a python package which is globally accessible from <a href="http://pypi.org/" target="_blank">pypi.org</a>. you can visit the python package by the following link:<div><a href="https://pypi.org/project/chi-final/" target="_blank">https://pypi.org/project/chi-final/</a><br></div><div>I want to know if I can apply for an Open Source License?</div><div>Note: I am using the MIT license for initial upload purposes. But can I have a separate license for this package?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Bhargab Ganguli</div></div>
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