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| + | = OWASP Recommended Licenses = | ||
| + | (Trying to make a complex choice easy for our project leaders)<br/> | ||
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| + | | ||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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| − | Why are you recommending these licenses? | + | 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 http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3803101_1/Bruce-Perens-How-Many-Open-Source-Licenses-Do-You-Need.htm]<br/> |
Which other opensource licenses are elegible for an OWASP Project? [http://opensource.org/licenses/category http://opensource.org/licenses/category]<br/> | Which other opensource licenses are elegible for an OWASP Project? [http://opensource.org/licenses/category http://opensource.org/licenses/category]<br/> | ||
</center> | </center> | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 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)" |
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
