Open source licenses

What is a license and why should you pick one for your project?

When open sourcing your code project you should always pick an appropriate license for it.

There are a lot of open source licenses available that fit a lot of use cases.

• MIT License
• Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license

See also

• Coding Horror blog post
• Choose a license
• The MIT License, Line by Line
• TL;DR Legal