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Add open-source license picker

As discussed at the software license workshop on October 4th 2024, the tool:

  • Should be pointed at together with the form
  • Disclaimer "not legal advice/do your homework"
  • Header of the tool: collaboration and societal impact.

Questions to be asked by the tool:

  • External code/dependencies (legal obligations)
  • Ecosystem/community preference

License possibilities: a few (look at Fluckiger). Recommended options:

  • Strongly reciprocal: GPLv3 or later
  • Permissive: Apache 2
  • Weakly-reciprocal (TBD)
  • GPL2/Apache 2: point to our recommendation (TBD)
Edited by Giacomo Tenaglia