Develop Guidance on Applying Open Source Licensing (outbound)

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The WHO works and collaborates on various technology solutions that can benefit from being open source. Appropriate guidance is required to help project owners choose the right open source license for their work depending on their needs. These needs could be:

• promoting collaboration and open innovation
• catalyzing discovery, awareness and adoption
• driving transparency and interoperability of technologies

There are a number of existing resources that exist on choosing open source licenses, including:

• Choose an open source license software and non-software
• Open source guides on GitHub

The Open Source Initiative provides a list of commonly use licenses that serve as a good starting point to identify a license.