I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which - have high license compatibility in order to permit sharing code with as many - other projects as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my - preferred choice, while avoiding copyleft licenses and other licenses which - place restrictions on how my code may be used, and prevent me from including - important proprietary code, such as firmware, which can patch security +
I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly + preferring licenses which have high license compatibility in + order to permit sharing code with as many other projects as + possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my + preferred choice, while avoiding copyleft licenses and other + licenses which place restrictions on how my code may be + used, and prevent me from including important proprietary + code, such as firmware, which can patch security vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and stability issues.
-All of my code is and will be permissively licensed unless specific - circumstances make it impractical or infeasible to do so. My goal is to share - code which has the least amount of restrictions as possible, to allow wider - propagation of my code and allow more use cases and possibilities, as well as - ensuring proprietary code, whenever required, is permitted to be included and/or - linked to.
+All of my code is and will be permissively licensed + unless specific circumstances make it impractical or + infeasible to do so. My goal is to share code which has the + least amount of restrictions as possible, to allow wider + propagation of my code and allow more use cases and + possibilities, as well as ensuring proprietary code, + whenever required, is permitted to be included and/or linked + to.
ISO 5962:2021
is used for licensing, in the format
- SPDX-License-Identifier: <license>; see the
+ SPDX-License-Identifier: <license>; see
+ the
SPDX License List
- for the full list of available licenses under this standard.
My preferred licenses and rationale for using them are below; any licenses - not listed are chosen on a case-by-case basis.
-SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- Type: Permissive
-BSD 3-Clause License - is a highly permissive license which allows content - licensed under it to be used in any way, whether in - source or binary form, and allows sublicensing under a - different license, with the only restrictions being the - original copyright notice must be kept in order to - attribute the original creator of the licensed content, - and the name of the project and/or its contributors may - not be used to endorse or promote products derived from - the original project.
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
- Type: Copyleft
-GNU General Public License v2.0
- is a strong copyleft license which restricts use of
- content licensed under it by requiring all source code
- of the content to be publicly available, making
- binary-only form and inclusion of proprietary code
- impossible, requiring all derivatives to be licensed
- under the same license (allowing sublicensing under only
- newer GPL licenses if GPL-2.0-or-later is
- specified in the SPDX license identifier), and requiring
- the original copyright notice to be kept in order to
- attribute the original creator of the licensed
- content.
Due to the restrictive and invasive nature of this - license, it is avoided unless such restrictions would be - beneficial to my code; whenever this is the case, the - GNU General Public License v2.0 will be used, rather - than the more restrictive - GNU General Public License v3.0, - and relicensing derivatives under the GNU General Public - License v3.0 will be disallowed.
-SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
- Type: Permissive
-Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International - is a highly permissive license which allows content - licensed under it to be used in any way, in any medium, - with the only restriction being the original copyright - notice must be kept in order to attribute the original - creator of the licensed content.
-No. If code is not released under an open-source license and - places restrictions on how the code may be used, it is either - source-available (if viewing the code is permitted) or - proprietary. "Free software" only causes confusion and exists to - push an ideology by a specific group of people. If software - isn't "free", it's not open-source, either.
+ for the full list of available licenses under this + standard. +My preferred licenses and rationale for using them are + below; any licenses not listed are chosen on a case-by-case + basis.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Type: Permissive
+BSD 3-Clause License + is a highly permissive license which + allows content licensed under it to be + used in any way, whether in source or + binary form, and allows sublicensing + under a different license, with the only + restrictions being the original + copyright notice must be kept in order + to attribute the original creator of the + licensed content, and the name of the + project and/or its contributors may not + be used to endorse or promote products + derived from the original project.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+ Type: Copyleft
+GNU General Public License v2.0
+ is a strong copyleft license which
+ restricts use of content licensed under
+ it by requiring all source code of the
+ content to be publicly available, making
+ binary-only form and inclusion of
+ proprietary code impossible, requiring
+ all derivatives to be licensed under the
+ same license (allowing sublicensing
+ under only newer GPL licenses if
+ GPL-2.0-or-later is
+ specified in the SPDX license
+ identifier), and requiring the original
+ copyright notice to be kept in order to
+ attribute the original creator of the
+ licensed content.
Due to the restrictive and invasive + nature of this license, it is avoided + unless such restrictions would be + beneficial to my code; whenever this is + the case, the GNU General Public License + v2.0 will be used, rather than the more + restrictive + GNU General Public License v3.0, + and relicensing derivatives under the + GNU General Public License v3.0 will be + disallowed.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
+ Type: Permissive
+Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International + is a highly permissive license which + allows content licensed under it to be + used in any way, in any medium, with the + only restriction being the original + copyright notice must be kept in order + to attribute the original creator of the + licensed content.
+No. If code is not released under an open-source + license and places restrictions on how the code may be + used, it is either source-available (if viewing the code + is permitted) or proprietary. "Free software" only + causes confusion and exists to push an ideology by a + specific group of people. If software isn't "free", it's + not open-source, either.
+