iqandreas/markdown-licenses

A collection of open source licenses in Markdown format. Contributions are always welcome!

Markdown Licenses

A collection of open source licenses in Markdown format.

Pull requests with new licenses are always welcome!

Why Markdown?

Because it's pretty! But most importantly, it's easier to read; after all, licenses are read by humans, not computers.

Compare these two files:

• GNU GPL v3 - Original plaintext version
• GNU GPL v3 - Markdown formatted version

Isn't editing the license a violation of the license?

Some licenses have lines like this one found in GNU GPL v3:

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

I'm no legal expert, however, considering that GNU provides a list of their licenses in various formats, I would assume that so long as the original wording remains intact, modification to the formatting (within reason) is allowed.

In the event of a fire

If there is any inconsistency between the markdown formatted license and the license it represents, please refer to the original license (found in CREDITS.md) for the correct wording.

Please read the licenses ahead of time to make sure they are correct, and use them at your own risk. Although we have strived to keep the license wording identical to the originals, we are not responsible for any legal implications caused by discrepancies in the licenses.

markdown-licenses's Issues

Format to 80 characters

It would be helpful to have lines of at most 80 characters when possible, this would help the display in old-school editors...

Wish: maintain a list of checksum of licences

More Metadata welcome:

• original source
• checksum of original
• checksum of alternative versions (reformated)

then we can check if the licenses contents are same.

Bad formatting in GPLv2

At the bottom, it has this:

`show w' and `show c`

which shows up like this:

show w' andshow c`

It should be this:

`show w` and `show c`

so that it will show up like this:

show w and show c

Is this project active?

Hi.

I want to help, but I want to know if this project is active. Is this project active?

Which license of this repository it self?

Hi,

I want to modify md files and import to my project (https://github.com/shibukawa/jsx-init). Can I use like this? I am thinking I will add your credit. So I prefer CC-BY.

Consistent placeholders across licenses

Would love to implement this in my frdmn/package-snippets SublimeText package which uses a bunch of license templates which currently are hardcoded inside the repository. To replace them with yours, I would need consistent placeholder like <owner> and <year> first.

What do you think?

rename "markdown-licenses" to "awesome-markdown-licenses"

Hi.

An initial suggestion would be to change the name of the repository to "awesome-markdown-licenses". This can make it easier to search for the repository on Google and GitHub.

Does it make sense or not?

GitHub (and others) support

Are these license files recognized automatically by GitHub (and other websites or tools)?

E.g. from this repo:

Minor inconsistency with Apache 2.0 instructions

Hi @IQAndreas many thanks for your effort in producing and sharing these.

The Apache published version of this file has slightly different instructions for Applying the License at the end, which I believe are slightly clearer than the version you have in your current version. Would you consider updating them?

Headers dots in gpl3

Here we have: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

0. Definitions. in MD version — not 0. Definitions

Add more licenses

Other licenses

• The MIT License (MIT)
• Apache License v2.0
• The Artistic License v2.0
• Eclipse Public License (EPL) v1.0
• Mozilla Public License (MPL) v2.0
• Modified BSD License (BSD 3-clause)
• Simplified BSD License (BSD 2-clause)
• WTFPL
• Microsoft Public License (MS-PL)
• Creative Commons Licenses (can they even be applied to code??)
• Unlicense (Public Domain)

GNU Licenses

• GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.0
• GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0
• GNU General Public License (GPL) v1.0
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v3.0
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v2.1
• GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3.0
• GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) v1.3

Lists of licenses to go through

• http://choosealicense.com/licenses/
• http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licenses
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#SoftwareLicenses
• http://www.tldrlegal.com/browse