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If you're on your own, first ask yourself how you want others to use your software. Are you building an open source library others will use to create their software? If you choose a permissive license, users can take your code, change it, and use it in their proprietary software without releasing the code.

Those who want to make their work available to the public for limited kinds of uses while preserving their copyright may want to consider using CC licenses. Others who want to reserve all of their rights under copyright law should not use CC licenses.

There are six different Creative Commons licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND. The letter pairs indicate conditions for use.

The 5 best open source licenses Berkeley Software Distribution License (BSD) BSD licenses originated from a Unix-type operating system. ... MIT license (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ... GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) ... Apache License 2.0. ... Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) License.

We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.

In general, then, if you want your content to be shareable, you should choose a Creative Commons license, and if you want it to not be shareable, your should declare it All Rights Reserved.

You should consider a personal license to be the bare minimum you offer. It won't preclude people from misusing your printables, but it may dissuade them. The next step up is a commercial license. This type of license allows the buyer to use your image in clearly delineated ways.

The main difference between a ?Site License? and a ?Single User License? is that with a site license you get a single license code that's good for all the computers covered by license. With individual licenses, you'll get, say 5 different licenses, one for each computer.

5 Types of Software LicensesPublic domain license (least restrictive)LGPLPermissiveAnyone is free to use, modify and redistribute the software.Allows developers to link to open-source libraries within the code of their own software.Has a few requirements about how the software can be used, modified and redistributed.

When you make a creative work (which includes code), the work is under exclusive copyright by default. Unless you include a license that specifies otherwise, nobody else can copy, distribute, or modify your work without being at risk of take-downs, shake-downs, or litigation.