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GitHub's plain language guide to picking an open source license based on your situation: follow your community's norm, keep it simple and permissive with MIT, or require shared improvements with GPLv3. It also explains what happens if you publish code with no license at all, which is that others cannot legally reuse it. Add a license to every public project you want people to use or contribute to.
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GitHub's plain language guide to picking an open source license based on your situation: follow your community's norm, keep it simple and permissive with MIT, or require shared improvements with GPLv3. It also explains what happens if you publish code with no license at all, which is that others cannot legally reuse it. Add a license to every public project you want people to use or contribute to.
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