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    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="license"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-05-01" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

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    <desc>Which license should you use for your application?</desc>

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  <title>License your application</title>

  
When you write a new application or library, you will need to choose a

  license so that others know how they can use or reuse your work.

  
Libraries which are used in GNOME are usually licensed under the

  <link href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</link>

  <link href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">LGPL 2.1+</link>.

  
Most newer GNOME applications are licensed under

  <link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL3+</link>, while

  some of the older applications are licensed under

  <link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL2+</link>.

  
User help which is written by the GNOME Documentation Team is licensed

  under <link href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-by-SA

  3.0 Unported</link>. The documentation team tries to use this license

  consistently as it allows re-use of text from Wikipedia and many other

  reference sources.

  
Translations have the same license as the parent strings. For example,

  strings from the applications are usually GPL2+ or GPL3+, while user

  documentation is usually CC-by-SA 3.0.

  
GNOME cannot give legal advice on which license you should choose, but you

  may want to read information that is available from the

  <link href="http://opensource.org/licenses">Open Source Initiative</link>,

  the <link href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html">FSF</link>

  and <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2014/04/17/choosing-a-license/">Dave

  Neary's blog post about choosing a license</link>. You may also find the

  <link href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/licensing.html">GStreamer

  licensing information</link> of interest, as GStreamer uses plugins.

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