rachelmichaela / project-licenser

A website that helps you pick a project license based on your needs and preferences.

project-licenser

A website that helps you pick a project license based on your needs and preferences.

Document last updated 19th November, 2020 (3 Kislev 5781).

The actual Project Licenser website can be found here.

Table of Contents

• About Project Licenser
• Supported Licenses
• Diagrammatic Representation
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgements

About Project Licenser

Project Licenser was started in 2020 (5781) by software engineer Rachel Michaela Bradley. Frustrated by both the lack of functionality and the complexity of other websites that provide software and cultural licensing recommendations, she set about creating a foolproof tool to provide recommendations from a curated and modest array of licenses.

Supported Licenses

• Automatic copyright, without a license
• Public domain, without a license

Software Licenses

• Apache License, version 2.0
• BSD 2-Clause License
• BSD 3-Clause License
• BSD 4-Clause License
• Common Development and Distribution License
• GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0
• GNU All-Permissive License
• GNU General Public License, version 3.0
• GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
• ISC License
• Mozilla Public License, version 2.0

Other Licenses

• CC0
• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives 4.0 International
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International
• Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International
• FreeBSD Documentation License
• GNU Free Documentation License
• GNU Verbatim Copyright License
• SIL Open Font License, version 1.1

Diagrammatic Representation

Contributing

Contributions can be made in the form of pull requests or, if you do not know how to edit Project Licenser's source code, issues. Please see the FAQ file for more information.

All contributors must assign the copyright of their contribution to the author of the project. This is to avoid the myraid of issues caused by having multiple intellectual property holders in a single project.

License

Copyright © 2020 Rachel Michaela Bradley.

Project Licenser is released in its entirety under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0. The full text of this license is available in the COPYING file.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Institute, Creative Commons, and all other organisations that are cited in the data sources, for providing excellent license information to software engineers and advocates.

project-licenser's Issues

Does not inform users that JavaScript is required

Description

When loading the webpage without JavaScript, the page simply displays the initial options to the user. As JavaScript is not enabled, it is not functional.

Expected Behavior

When loading the webpage without JavaScript, the user should be warned that JavaScript is required.

Possible Solution

Implement a noscript block, do not load the main content unless JavaScript support is enabled.