Coverage

Licenses we cover

This page is generated from the same data the questionnaires run on. When a card goes live, its licences appear here automatically; nothing on this page is maintained by hand.

30 distinct licences across 3 public cards.

Software

Beginner

9 licences this card can recommend

  • MIT
  • Apache-2.0
  • MPL-2.0
  • LGPL-3.0-only
  • LGPL-3.0-or-later
  • GPL-3.0-only
  • GPL-3.0-or-later
  • AGPL-3.0-only
  • AGPL-3.0-or-later
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Software

Advanced

23 licences this card can recommend

  • MIT
  • Apache-2.0
  • BSD-3-Clause
  • 0BSD
  • MPL-2.0
  • LGPL-3.0-only
  • LGPL-3.0-or-later
  • GPL-3.0-only
  • GPL-3.0-or-later
  • AGPL-3.0-only
  • AGPL-3.0-or-later
  • BSD-2-Clause
  • ISC
  • Zlib
  • Unlicense
  • Artistic-2.0
  • EPL-2.0
  • CDDL-1.0
  • EUPL-1.2
  • MS-PL
  • MS-RL
  • GPL-2.0-only
  • LGPL-2.1-only
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Creative work

Documentation & media

9 licences this card can recommend

  • CC0-1.0
  • CC-BY-4.0
  • CC-BY-SA-4.0
  • CC-BY-3.0
  • CC-BY-SA-3.0
  • GFDL-1.3-or-later
  • FreeBSD-DOC
  • MIT
  • Apache-2.0
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Described, but never recommended

Documentation & media

These do not meet the Open Definition. The card explains them when a user asks for their restrictions, and never returns one as a result.

  • CC-BY-NC-4.0
  • CC-BY-ND-4.0
  • CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
  • CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
What NonCommercial and NoDerivatives actually say

5 more cards are still in research and review and are not listed here. PickALicense does not generate licence files; every result names the official text to apply.