{"repo":"github/choosealicense.com","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com","clone":"git clone https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com.git","description":"A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project","language":"HTML","stars":4200,"topics":["jekyll","open-source","licensing","law","open-source-licensing"],"license":"MIT","category":"docs-static-sites","readme_excerpt":"ChooseALicense.com aims to provide accurate , non-judgmental , and understandable information about popular open source licenses in order to help people make informed decisions about the projects they start, maintain, contribute to, and use. We catalog select open source licenses with a Jekyll collection (in licenses ). The catalog is used to render ChooseALicense.com and is regularly vendored into Licensee, which GitHub uses to provide a license chooser and license detection, a licenses API, and to display license descriptions and metadata. Goals Be accurate, non-judgmental, and understandable. Our goal is to help you find a license that meets your goals. The homepage should have just enough to help most folks make a decision about what license to use for a project they contribute to. For the rest, the site will contain additional information about licenses common to specific communities and situations. Collaborate with and reinforce other licensing best practices and standards projects. Not comprehensive. Seems like an odd goal, but there are a bajillion licenses out there. We're going to have to filter that down to a small list of those that matter. Translations The site is available in multiple languages: the default language is served at the root and each other language under its own prefix (e.g. /fr/ ), generated from the same source files via jekyll-polyglot. Because polyglot isn't a GitHub Pages plugin, the site is built and deployed from GitHub Actions (see .github/w","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/github","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/github/choosealicense.com/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}