Revision as of 19:56, 9 December 2012

OWASP Recommended Licenses

(Trying to make a complex choice easy for our project leaders)

	Allow commercial uses of your work?
	Yes			No
	Allow modifications of your work?
	Yes, no restriction except attribution	Yes, as long as modification are also opensource	No
Tool Project (Non-WebBased)	Apache 2.0 (fewest restrictions, even allowing proprietary modifications and proprietary forks of your project, and more up-to-date than BSD license)	GPL 3.0 (requires that modifications to your code stay open source, thus prohibiting proprietary forks of your project)	Sorry, such licenses are not opensource and are not elegible to become an OWASP Sponsored Project. If this is really what you want, consider using CC-BY-ND or CC-BY-NC-ND. See http://creativecommons.org/choose for more information and note that they label these two license as "not a Free Culture License".
Tool Project (WebBased)		AGPL 3.0 (prevents GPL's SaaS loophole)
Library Project		LGPL 3.0 (similar to GPL but modified for use with libraries that may be called by other proprietary programs)
Document Project (includes E-Learning, presos, books, etc)	CC-BY 3.0 (like Apache but for documents)	CC-BY-SA 3.0 (like GPL but for documents. Alternately you can use GFDL, but projects like Debian and Ubuntu don't accept it)

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