License Chooser
License Chooser

This page helps you to understand the difference between licenses for sharing your work with others.

Click at left on types of licenses to see which terms apply, or click at right on specific rights you wish to reserve, and the License Chooser will identify any licenses that match your combination.

By default, most of these licenses allow re-use without permission under certain restrictions. However, this does not prevent the creator from negotiating a separate agreement for individuals. For example, you may offer your song freely to everyone for non-commercial use, but charge BMW to use it in a commercial.

Choose a license...
All-rights-reserved
Public-domain
Open-art
GPL
LGPL
CCby (BSD, MIT)
CCby-sa
CCby-nc-nd
Or choose the terms... [Show terms]
Attribution
Registration
Noncommercial
View Source
Combinations
Allowed Share Alike None
Transformations
Allowed Share Alike None
Add custom terms:

Public-domain means no license at all, giving away all control over how the work is used. (Experts disagree on whether this is "freer" than a sharealike license.)
Combinations allowed: The work can be combined with other material to create a new work; for example, a JavaScript could be used to make a Web site.
Transformations allowed: The work can be changed to create a new work; for example, a song could be speeded up, re-orchestrated, or remixed.

This demo is drawn from the built-in License Chooser of The Pool, a project of Still Water.