Ask HN: What is the best license type for my open source project?

• elegant-cli

  52 143 9.5 TypeScript

  :purple_heart: Build SEO-friendly websites, super fast full-stack web applications, and much more with Elegant. Built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Outstatic, and more.

  

For anyone interested, I created our existing license using GitHub's tool.

I'm not exactly sure how much legal weight it carries, or if it's even enforceable if I put my own language in it.

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/blob/v2.3/LI...

• tinacms

  59 11,105 9.5 TypeScript

  A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing

  

Check out this license for example: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/LICENSE

It's an Apache 2.0 license, but with adendums.

Would it be reasonable to say that I could fork their repo for own purposes, and argue in court that I was only familar with Apache 2.0, and not their modified terms?

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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