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2023-10-10
Eric Swanson

Choose licensing model

Context and Problem Statement

Everything needs to be licensed, otherwise the default copyright laws apply. For instance, in Germany that means users may not alter anything without explicitly asking for permission. For more information see https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/.

We want to have this project used without any hassle and that users can use it, customize it, extend it, and contribute to it as they wish.

Considered Options

  • CC0
  • BSD3
  • MIT
  • Dual license with MIT and CC0
  • No license
  • Other open source licenses

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: "Dual license", because this lets users choose whether CC0 or MIT fits better on their work.

Pros and Cons of the Options

CC0

  • Good, because this license donates the content to "public domain" and does so as legally as possible.
  • Bad, because it does not contain attribution - and attribution is important.

BSD3

MIT

Dual license with MIT and CC0

With the SPDX identifier MIT OR CC0-1.0, the receiver of the documents can decide which license they want to use.

  • Good, because offers freedom at the receiver
  • Bad, because dual licensing is not widely known