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Common open source license option options are summarized very nicely at http://choosealicense.com/licenses/
For Harvard Library created open source projects, we would like the license for reuse of the software to be the library is motivated to release software under a license that is common in the library community and is as simple and permissive as possible - we wish to placed virtually . In general, the Harvard Library wishes to place no restrictions on the reuse of our open source code, for any use, both commercial and non-commercial uses. We also wish to explicitly grant . Additionally, the library explicitly grants the right to use any patentable concepts. For that reason, we recommend the Library recommends that wherever possible, code developed as open source by Harvard Library or Harvard Library Technology Services be released with the Apache 2.0 license.
In choosing the Apache 2.0 license, we follow the lead of Project Hydra, Project Mirador, Project Blacklight, and many others.
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