Software licenses, explained without the legalese
What each open source license actually permits, what it costs you, and which choices you cannot undo.
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How to add a license to a GitHub repository
How to add a LICENSE file, what GitHub does with it, and what having no license actually means.
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Your MIT-licensed repo is worth nothing to AI labs. Your private ones are not.
What the MIT license permits, what it costs you, and why permissively licensed public code has no licensing value left.
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Open source licenses compared
MIT, BSD, Apache, GPL, LGPL, AGPL and MPL compared on what each actually requires, and which choices cannot be undone.
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Software license types
The four families of software license, what each one permits, and where source-available and dual licensing fit.
You have repos you will never open again.
Private, finished, owned by you, and doing nothing.
That is the code labs pay to license. Non-exclusively, so you keep it.