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Difference between revisions of "Template:Recommended Licenses"
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<td>No</td> | <td>No</td> | ||
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| + | <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)</font></td> <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 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 http://creativecommons.org/choose] for more information and note that they label these two license as "not a Free Culture License"</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>Tool Project<br/>(WebBased)</td> | ||
| + | <td>AGPL 3.0<<br/>(prevents GPL's SaaS loophole)</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <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> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <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> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
</table> | </table> | ||
Revision as of 20:09, 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)</font> | <td>GPL 3.0|||
