6 There are plenty of `open source licenses <http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical>`_
7 available to choose from.
9 In general, these licenses tend to fall into one of two categories:
11 1. licenses that focus more on the user's freedom to do with the
12 software as they please (these are the more-permissive open
13 source licenses such as the MIT, BSD, & Apache), and
15 2. licenses that focus more on making sure that the code itself —
16 including any changes made to it and distributed along with it —
17 always remains free (these are the less-permissive free software
18 licenses, for example, the GPL and LGPL).
20 The latter are less-permissive in the sense that they don't permit
21 someone to add code to the software and distribute it without also
22 including the source code for their changes.
24 To help you choose one for your project, there's a `license chooser <http://three.org/openart/license_chooser/>`_,