github/choosealicense.com resource
A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
74/100
- Activity 92
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4797
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 51
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4203 stars · 1623 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
ChooseALicense.com is an open-source website and Jekyll-based catalog that provides clear, non-judgmental guidance on choosing an open source license. It catalogs popular licenses with plain-language summaries of permissions, conditions, and limitations, and its data is vendored into GitHub's license detection tooling.
Use cases
- choose a license for my open source project
- compare MIT vs GPL vs Apache licenses
- understand what a license permits and requires
- find a license for a non-software project
- get license metadata and legal text for tooling
- learn what happens if I don't license my code
When to choose
- you're starting a new open source project and unsure which license to pick
- you need plain-language explanations of common licenses
- you want a curated catalog of license texts and metadata for tooling
When to avoid
- you need legal advice from a lawyer
- you need a comprehensive directory of every license ever written
- you need automated license detection in your own tool (use Licensee instead)
Facets
learning-resource · maturity active
documentation developer-tools developer-tools legal documentation self-hosted open-source-licensing jekyll license-catalog license-chooser legal-guidance open-source web-server
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com · fetched 2026-08-28 · ca071edb64fa
- homepage: https://choosealicense.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7210c386e9e5
- site_page: https://choosealicense.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · eddef7e24d7f
- site_page: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1ce81ae4a166
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| github/choosealicense.com | main | 74 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="github/choosealicense.com")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem