choosealicense.com icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
choosealicense.com copied to clipboard

A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

Results 66 choosealicense.com issues
Sort by recently updated
recently updated
newest added

As a new user of the site, it would be very helpful if there was a way to limit the list of licenses in the appendix based on license attributes...

choosealicense.org has HSTS due to #483. It would be great to go all the way and preload HSTS: https://hstspreload.org/?domain=choosealicense.org Steps would be: - [x] Serve an HSTS header with a...

enhancement

The wording of the license condition "state changes" is too vague. https://choosealicense.com/appendix/#document-changes > **State changes** > Changes made to the licensed material must be documented. Does this mean anyone who...

[Fair License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_License) This license appears to pass rule 1 and 2 in CONTRIBUTING.md, but i dont think it passes rule 3. (searching for fair license in github code search happens...

Would it be helpful to add some type of metadata or OSI stamp to the licenses? The list of licenses from https://spdx.org/licenses/ or https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical have columns to provide each license...

[Comment/question today](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/pull/320#issuecomment-230746990) about whether EUPL-1.1 is accurately described reminded me to file this enhancement idea. For each license, license rules could be annotated with ranges of text in the license...

enhancement
help wanted

choosealicence.com (note the second "c" in "licence") that redirects to choosealicense.com has the certificate for github.com, which brings up a warning screen

We should have a test that each license text in `_licenses` is the same as the plain text license in the SPDX collection to automate the requirement described at https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license...

help wanted

- GPL2 -> You may also consider EUPL - MIT -> You may also consider BSD etc... people would have to dig for more details themselves.

Hello! Thank you for making this website. It is such a great resource! The only thing that I feel is missing is some information on the compliance requirements. It is...