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Choosing a License
Hey, so you’ve made a mod, great job! But now you’re stumped: Which license do I choose? Here are some suggestions from the Lethal Company Modding Community. Make sure you understand any license you select fully.
Changing a project’s license does not apply retroactively. Choose an appropriate license at the start of your project and stick with it to avoid confusion and problems down the road
You will learn:
- The pros and cons of various open source licenses
- The license that is most suitable for your project (hopefully)
Prerequisites:
- Patience
Table of Contents
- Choosing a License
- Acknowledgments
GNU Licenses
GNU AGPLv3
Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available. Read More
GNU GLPv3
Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights.
GNU LGPLv3
Permissions of this copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications under the same license or the GNU GPLv3. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. However, a larger work using the licensed work through interfaces provided by the licensed work may be distributed under different terms and without source code for the larger work.
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Permissions of this weak copyleft license are conditioned on making available source code of licensed files and modifications of those files under the same license (or in certain cases, one of the GNU licenses). Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. However, a larger work using the licensed work may be distributed under different terms and without source code for files added in the larger work.
Appache License 2.0
A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution 4.0 International
This license permits other users to share, copy and remix your work without restriction except that they must attribute the original author.
Attribution 4.0 Share A like International
This license permits other users to share, copy and remix your work without restriction except that they must attribute the original author and must share any derived works under the same license as the original.
Attribution 4.0 No Derivatives Non Commercial
This license permits other users to share, copy and remix your work without restrictions except that they must attribute the original author, may not sell your work or use it commercially and may not create and distribute derived works that contain your work in part or whole.
Creative Commons Zero
This license is a complete revocation of authorship rights. Works released under this license functionally have no restrictions and are completely free to use for any purpose by anyone without notice or credit.
MIT License
A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
Boost Software License
A simple permissive license only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices for source (and not binary) distribution. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
Acknowledgments
The contents of this page have been adapted from ChooseALicense and are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.