---
title: Choose a License
description: Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
relative_permalinks: false
markdown: kramdown
url: "https://choosealicense.com"

# Internationalization, powered by jekyll-polyglot.
# The default language stays at the site root (e.g. /licenses/mit/); every other
# language is generated under its own prefix (e.g. /fr/licenses/mit/) from the
# same single source files — no per-language duplication of pages or license texts.
# Adding a language = add its code below and a _data/i18n/<code>/ directory.
languages: ["en", "fr", "es", "pt", "zh", "ko", "ar"]
default_lang: "en"
# Paths served once at the site root and never prefixed per language (assets, etc.),
# so links to them keep working on translated pages.
exclude_from_localization: ["assets", "favicon.ico", "robots.txt", "CNAME", ".nojekyll"]

collections:
  licenses:
    output: true
    permalink: /licenses/:path/

defaults:
  -
    scope:
      path: ""
      type: "licenses"
    values:
      hidden: true
      layout: license

exclude:
  - CNAME
  - CONTRIBUTING.md
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock
  - LICENSE.md
  - Rakefile
  - README.md
  - i18n/README.md
  - script
  - vendor/bundle
  - spec
  - assets/vendor/selectivizr/tests
  - assets/vendor/*/README.*
  - license-list-XML

plugins:
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-redirect-from
  - jekyll-seo-tag
  - jekyll-github-metadata # For 'Improve this page' links
  - jekyll-polyglot # Internationalization (built via GitHub Actions, see .github/workflows/deploy.yml)

sass:
    style: :compressed

twitter:
  username: "@github"