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A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2015-03-26 · latest 2025-04-02

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  1. …that bundling, like static linking, may implicate copyright concerns github/choosealicense.com: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347468 : > A manylinux_x_y wheel requires glibc>=x.y.…
    comment by westurner · 2025-04-02 · in The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it
  2. …on top?? I'm also going to use this opportunity to not say anything about the EPL or MPL. Bye! [1] https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/L... [2] https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com [3]…
    comment by tripleo1 · 2023-12-24 · in Ask HN: Apache-2.0 or LGPL-3.0?
  3. …it does have some drawbacks. Notably, GitHub and the Go programming language refuse to support it: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54683
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-08-29 · in A handy guide to financial support for open source
  4. …source explicitly for non commercial use only Sadly, GitHub support for this doesn't really exist: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-08-24 · in How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
  5. …as the source. They recommend filing a PR there, but BSL doesn’t fit the requirements at https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/C... https://github.com/licensee/licensee/blob/master/docs/CONTRI...
    comment by captn3m0 · 2021-07-09 · in Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds
  6. …make it easy to choose a license, not to list every possible choice. (I occasionally help maintain https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com which is the source for the site.)
    comment by mlinksva · 2018-06-05 · in Open Source License Helper Tool
  7. They also don't have an option for GPLv2, because it would introduce "cognitive overhead". https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/413
    comment by darkengine · 2016-10-10 · in GitHub Removes BSD2/3 Clause Licenses
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    BSD 3-clause vs. MIT on GitHub
    story by ngoldbaum · 2016-08-30 · 0 comments
  9. …choosealicense.com, and those are hosted in this repo[1] and have source information embedded. [1] https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/tree/gh-pages/_...
    comment by icebraining · 2015-03-26 · in GitHub unveils its Licenses API