LicensesCentralized collection of licenses used throughout various projects and articles in SudoVanilla. While this list features widely recognized licenses like MIT and Creative Commons, it also includes non-standardized or custom licenses specifically to tailor to unique project requirements within SudoVanilla projects.
Please ensure that you review the specific terms of each template to determine which one best aligns with your goals and distribution needs. All templates are provided as plain TXT files.
Do I need a license for my project?
Adding a license to your project is an essential because, under standard copyright law, your work defaults to “All rights reserved” the moment is is created. Without any explicit license, other developers and companies cannot legally download, modify, or use your code, even if it publicly visible on platforms such as GitHub and Codeberg. This creates a legal risk that often forces experienced developers and businesses to avoid your project entirely. By choosing a license, you provide the “rules of engagement” that grant others the legal permission required to build upon your work while you retain ownership of the original contents.
Additionally, a license acts as a legal shield by including a “NO WARRANTY” clause that protects you and your team from liability if your code causes any system errors or data loss. With that in mind, it allows you to share your projects safely while letting employers know that you understand the industry standards.
Limitations
A license represents a permanent commitment to the public and community that cannot be easily undone. Once you release a version of your project under an open-source license, that specific release is generally considered to be licensed in perpetuity; sorry but you cannot retroactively take back the permissions and revoke the rights of those users and developers who already possess that version. While you do retain the rights to change the license for all future releases, a common practice for projects transitioning to more restrictive or commercial terms, the historical versions remain available under their original term and licenses that anyone who previously downloaded them. This means that even if you later regret your choice of license or want to monetize the project, the original open-source source code can be continued used, modified, and redistributed among others indefinitely.
So please, select a license below with long-term strategic decision that require careful consideration of your project’s future.
Licenses
Software and Projects
- Do What The **** You Want To But It’s Not My Fault Public License (*)
- Do What The **** You Want To Public License (*)
- GNU AGPL 3.0 or later
- MIT
- MIT No Attribution License
- Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
- Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
- No License
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Software and Projects Non-AI
Contains templates for software and digital work licenses that restrict software and other work from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies. All templates are directly from Non-AI-Licenses repository and it’s contributors.
- Apache 2.0 Style License
- 1-Clause BSD Style License
- 2-Clause BSD Style License
- 3-Clause BSD Style License
- MIT Style License
- UPL Style License
- ISC Style License
- CC0 Style License
- MPL-2.0 Style License
- BSL-1.0 Style License
- Unlicense-Style License
- zlib Style License