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So you want to contribute to ChooseALicense. Great! We welcome any help we can
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get. But first, please make sure you understand what
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[this site is all about](http://choosealicense.com/about). It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.
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[this site is all about](https://choosealicense.com/about). It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.
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## Adding a license
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Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present or catalog all of them. As such, only a small number are highlighted on the home page or <http://choosealicense.com/licenses>, and there are several requirements for a license to be [cataloged](http://choosealicense.com/appendix/) on the site:
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Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present or catalog all of them. As such, only a small number are highlighted on the home page or <https://choosealicense.com/licenses>, and there are several requirements for a license to be [cataloged](https://choosealicense.com/appendix/) on the site:
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1. The license must have [an SPDX identifier](https://spdx.org/licenses/). If your license isn't registered with SPDX, please [request that it be added](https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license).
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2. The license must be listed on one of the following approved lists of licenses:
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*[List of OSI approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical)
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*[GNU's list of free licenses](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html) (*note: the license must be listed in one of the three "free" categories*)
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*[Open Definition's list of conformant licenses](http://opendefinition.org/licenses/) (non-code)
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*[Open Definition's list of conformant licenses](https://opendefinition.org/licenses/) (non-code)
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3. A [GitHub code search](https://github.com/search?q=MIT+filename%3ALICENSE&type=Code) must reveal at least *1,000* public repositories using the license
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4. Identification of 3 notable projects using the license with straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that could be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee) if it knew about the license
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If your proposed license meets the above criteria, here's a few other things to keep in mind as you propose the license's addition:
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* Is the license already cataloged? See <http://choosealicense.com/appendix/> for a list of all of the licenses known by the site.
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* Is the license already cataloged? See <https://choosealicense.com/appendix/> for a list of all of the licenses known by the site.
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* Licenses live in the `/_licenses` folder.
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* The license files should be in the format of `_licenses/[lowercased-spdx-id].txt` (e.g., `_licenses/mit.txt`)
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* Each license has both [required and optional metadata](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license-metadata) that should be included.
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A lot of repositories on GitHub.com don't have a license. GitHub provides a license chooser, but if you don't know anything about licenses, how are you supposed to make an informed decision?
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[ChooseALicense.com](http://www.choosealicense.com"Choose A Licence website") is designed to help people make an informed decision about licenses by demystifying license choices through non-judgmental guidance.
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[ChooseALicense.com](https://www.choosealicense.com"Choose A Licence website") is designed to help people make an informed decision about licenses by demystifying license choices through non-judgmental guidance.
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## Immediate Goals
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*`title` - The license full name specified by http://spdx.org/licenses/
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*`spdx-id` - Short identifier specified by http://spdx.org/licenses/
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*`title` - The license full name specified by https://spdx.org/licenses/
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*`spdx-id` - Short identifier specified by https://spdx.org/licenses/
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*`source` - The URL to the license source text
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*`featured` - Whether the license should be featured on the main page (defaults to false)
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*`hidden` - Whether the license is neither [popular](https://opensource.org/licenses) nor fills out the [spectrum of licenses](http://choosealicense.com/licenses/) from strongly conditional to unconditional (defaults to true)
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*`hidden` - Whether the license is neither [popular](https://opensource.org/licenses) nor fills out the [spectrum of licenses](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/) from strongly conditional to unconditional (defaults to true)
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*`nickname` - Customary short name if applicable (e.g, GPLv3)
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*`note` - Additional information about the licenses
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*`redirect_from` - Relative path(s) to redirect to the license from, to prevent breaking old URLs
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## License
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The content of this project itself is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US), and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
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The content of this project itself is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US), and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
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description: Whether the license is neither [popular](https://opensource.org/licenses) nor fills out the [spectrum of licenses](http://choosealicense.com/licenses/) from strongly conditional to unconditional (defaults to true)
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description: Whether the license is neither [popular](https://opensource.org/licenses) nor fills out the [spectrum of licenses](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/) from strongly conditional to unconditional (defaults to true)
<pclass="note"><strong>Optional: </strong> Add <strong><code>{{ page.spdx-id }}{% if xgpl %}-or-later{% endif %}</code></strong>{% if xgpl %} (or <strong><code>{{ page.spdx-id }}-only</code></strong> to disallow future versions){% endif %} to your project's package description, if applicable (e.g., <ahref="https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#license">Node.js</a>, <ahref="http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/#license=">Ruby</a>, and <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#package-metadata">Rust</a>). This will ensure the license is displayed in package directories.</p>
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<pclass="note"><strong>Optional: </strong> Add <strong><code>{{ page.spdx-id }}{% if xgpl %}-or-later{% endif %}</code></strong>{% if xgpl %} (or <strong><code>{{ page.spdx-id }}-only</code></strong> to disallow future versions){% endif %} to your project's package description, if applicable (e.g., <ahref="https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#license">Node.js</a>, <ahref="https://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/#license=">Ruby</a>, and <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#package-metadata">Rust</a>). This will ensure the license is displayed in package directories.</p>
description: Heavily favored by the Perl community, the Artistic license requires that modified versions of the software do not prevent users from running the standard version.
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description: The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is a copyleft free/open source software license created on the initiative of and approved by the European Commission in 22 official languages of the European Union.
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note: OSL 3.0's author has <a href="https://rosenlaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm">provided an explanation</a> behind the creation of the license.
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[CC0-1.0](/licenses/cc0-1.0/), [CC-BY-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-4.0/), and [CC-BY-SA-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0/) are [open](http://opendefinition.org) licenses used for non-software material ranging from datasets to videos. Note that CC-BY-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0 should [not be used for software](https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software).
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[CC0-1.0](/licenses/cc0-1.0/), [CC-BY-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-4.0/), and [CC-BY-SA-4.0](/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0/) are [open](https://opendefinition.org) licenses used for non-software material ranging from datasets to videos. Note that CC-BY-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0 should [not be used for software](https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software).
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