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Discussion on: Which licence do you use for your open source projects?

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Casey Brooks

Most of my projects are under the BSD 3-clause license. It's pretty close to MIT, but with the additional that the name cannot be used without consent (hard forks must be renamed).

However, for Orchid, a bigger project with more at stake, I chose LGPL 3.0. It's functionally GPL 3.0, but has a special exception for use as a library. So companies are free to distribute their apps which contain LGPL libraries without disclosing their source, unlike GPL. For me, this gives the project the protection and collaboration benefits of GPL from OSS consumers, while not scaring off business consumers.