Licensing a repository - GitHub Docs

Public repositories on GitHub are often used to share open source software. For your repository to truly be open source, you'll need to license it so that others are free to use, change, and distribute the software. Choosing the right license We created choosealicense.com, to help you understand how to license your code. A software license tells others what they can and can't do with your source c

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"when you are on a repository home page, you can click on the + icon. To make the process easier, if you name the newly created file LICENSE.md, the license picker automatically appears."