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| − | <td colspan=4>Allow commercial uses of your work?</td> | + | <td colspan="4">Allow commercial uses of your work?</td> |
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| − | <td colspan=3>Yes</td> | + | <td colspan="3">Yes</td> |
| − | <td rowspan=3>No</td> | + | <td rowspan="3">No</td> |
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| − | <td>ToolProject<br>(Non-WebBased)</td> | + | <td>ToolProject<br/>(Non-WebBased)</td> |
| − | <td rowspan=3>Apache 2.0<br>(fewest restrictions, even allowing proprietary modifications and proprietary forks of your project, and more up-to-date than BSD license) | + | <td rowspan="3">Apache 2.0<br/>(fewest restrictions, even allowing proprietary modifications and proprietary forks of your project, and more up-to-date than BSD license)</td> |
| − | <td colspan=2 rowspan=4>Sorry, such licenses are not opensource and are not | + | <td>GPL 3.0<br/>(requires that modifications to your code stay open source, thus prohibiting proprietary forks of your project)</td> |
| + | <td colspan="2" rowspan="4">Sorry, such licenses are not opensource and are not eligible 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 http://creativecommons.org/choose] for more information and note that they label these two license as "not a Free Culture License"</td> | ||
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<td>Tool Project<br/>(WebBased)</td> | <td>Tool Project<br/>(WebBased)</td> | ||
| − | <td>AGPL 3.0 | + | <td>AGPL 3.0<br/>(prevents GPL's SaaS loophole)</td> |
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<td>Library Project</td> | <td>Library Project</td> | ||
| − | <td>LGPL 3.0<br>(similar to GPL but modified for use with libraries that may be called by other proprietary programs)</td> | + | <td>LGPL 3.0<br/>(similar to GPL but modified for use with libraries that may be called by other proprietary programs)</td> |
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<td>Document Project (includes E-Learning, presos, books, etc)</td> | <td>Document Project (includes E-Learning, presos, books, etc)</td> | ||
| − | <td>CC-BY 3.0<br>(like Apache but for documents)</td><td>CC-BY-SA 3.0<br>(like GPL but for documents. Alternately you can use GFDL, but projects like Debian and Ubuntu don't accept it)</td> | + | <td>CC-BY 3.0<br/>(like Apache but for documents)</td><td>CC-BY-SA 3.0<br/>(like GPL but for documents. Alternately you can use GFDL, but projects like Debian and Ubuntu don't accept it)</td> |
</tr> | </tr> | ||
</table> | </table> | ||
Revision as of 20:15, 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 | ||
| ToolProject (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 eligible 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) |
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| Library Project | LGPL 3.0 (similar to GPL but modified for use with libraries that may be called by other proprietary programs) |
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| 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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Why are you recommending these licenses? http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3803101_1/Bruce-Perens-How-Many-Open-Source-Licenses-Do-You-Need.htm
Which other opensource licenses are elegible for an OWASP Project? http://opensource.org/licenses/category
