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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" id="license" xml:lang="ca">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index" group="license"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-05-01" status="draft"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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</credit>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="cc-by-sa-3-0.xml"/>
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<desc>Which license should you use for your application?</desc>
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</info>
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<title>License your application</title>
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When you write a new application or library, you will need to choose a
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license so that others know how they can use or reuse your work.
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Libraries which are used in GNOME are usually licensed under the
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<link href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</link>
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<link href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">LGPL 2.1+</link>.
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Most newer GNOME applications are licensed under
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<link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL3+</link>, while
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some of the older applications are licensed under
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<link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL2+</link>.
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User help which is written by the GNOME Documentation Team is licensed
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under <link href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-by-SA
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3.0 Unported</link>. The documentation team tries to use this license
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consistently as it allows re-use of text from Wikipedia and many other
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reference sources.
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Translations have the same license as the parent strings. For example,
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strings from the applications are usually GPL2+ or GPL3+, while user
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documentation is usually CC-by-SA 3.0.
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GNOME cannot give legal advice on which license you should choose, but you
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may want to read information that is available from the
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<link href="http://opensource.org/licenses">Open Source Initiative</link>,
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the <link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html">FSF</link>
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and <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2014/04/17/choosing-a-license/">Dave
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Neary's blog post about choosing a license</link>. You may also find the
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<link href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/licensing.html">GStreamer
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licensing information</link> of interest, as GStreamer uses plugins.
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</page>
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