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<td colspan="4"><b>Allow commercial uses of your work?</b></td> | <td colspan="4"><b>Allow commercial uses of your work?</b></td> | ||
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<td><b>Yes, no restriction except attribution</b></td> | <td><b>Yes, no restriction except attribution</b></td> | ||
| − | <td><b>Yes, as long as modification are also | + | <td><b>Yes, as long as modification are also open source</b></td> |
<td><b>No</b></td> | <td><b>No</b></td> | ||
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| − | <td> | + | <td>Tool Project<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> | + | <td rowspan="3">[https://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License] (newest version as of 2016 is 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>GPL 3.0<br/>(requires that modifications to your code stay open source, thus prohibiting proprietary forks of your project)</td> | + | <td>[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL] (newest version as of 2016 is 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 | + | <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 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<br/>(prevents GPL's SaaS loophole)</td> | + | <td>[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html AGPL] (newest version as of 2016 is 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>[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html LGPL] (newest version as of 2016 is 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 | + | <td>[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY] (newest version as of 2016 is 4.0):<br/>(like Apache but for documents)</td> |
| + | <td>[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-SA] (newest version as of 2016 is 4.0):<br/>(like GPL but for documents. Alternately you can use GFDL, but projects like Debian and Ubuntu don't accept it)</td> | ||
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Revision as of 12:19, 19 April 2017
Why are you recommending these licenses?
Which other open source licenses are eligible for an OWASP project?
| Artifact | Allow commercial uses of your work? | |||
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| Yes | No | |||
| Allow modifications of your work? | ||||
| Yes, no restriction except attribution | Yes, as long as modification are also open source | No | ||
| Tool Project (Non-WebBased) |
Apache License (newest version as of 2016 is 2.0): (fewest restrictions, even allowing proprietary modifications and proprietary forks of your project, and more up-to-date than BSD license) |
GPL (newest version as of 2016 is 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 (newest version as of 2016 is 3.0): (prevents GPL's SaaS loophole) |
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| Library Project | LGPL (newest version as of 2016 is 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 (newest version as of 2016 is 4.0): (like Apache but for documents) |
CC-BY-SA (newest version as of 2016 is 4.0): (like GPL but for documents. Alternately you can use GFDL, but projects like Debian and Ubuntu don't accept it) |
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