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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 andproprietary 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 prohibitingproprietary 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 notethat they label these two license as "not a Free Culture License". |
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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 byother 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) |
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