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For Harvard Library created open source projects, we would like the license for reuse of the software to be as simple and permissive as possible - we wish to placed virtually no restrictions on the reuse of our open source code, for both commercial and non-commercial uses. We also wish to explicitly grant the right to use any patentable concepts. For that reason, we recommend that wherever possible, code developed as open source by Harvard Library or Harvard Library Technology Services be released with the Apache 2.0 license (with the "year" filled with the year of first release.
In choosing the Apache 2.0 license, we follow the lead of Project Hydra and others.
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