Markdown OSS Licenses
A collection of open source licenses in Markdown.
"Why Markdown?"
Markdown is human-readable in its plaintext form by design. It becomes more human-readable when rendered by a compatible frontend, while retaining all of the plaintext benefits. Additionally, licenses are often viewed on source code management platforms that render Markdown files natively, like Codeberg or GitHub.
Compare these two files:
License Content
"Is editing the license a violation of the license?"
Caution
C-Forge is not a law firm nor are its maintainers lawyers. None of the text in this document is legal advice.
The licenses in this project do not have their actual content changed, only reformatted into Markdown. This is done under the same logic as converting a license into e.g. a PDF file.
Data Integrity
This project is a collection of plaintext license files copied from various places around the web. Please report any inconsistencies/divergences between the versions published here and those found in their original locations as an issue.
Important
Always cross reference with a license's original published text before using one of the files in this repository in your own work, and use them at your own risk.
Available Licenses
See licenses/.
This project currently only supports OSI-approved licenses.
Contributions
Issues and pull requests are welcome.
Additional Resources
Credit
This repository is a maintained fork of github.com/IQAndreas/markdown-licenses, with a goal of addressing all open PRs and issues from the original project at the time of forking. See docs/adoption for more information.