Licensing

Attaching a license to your project

Every repository you create must have a LICENSE file at the project root containing the license text, here is an example.

Github allows you to select a license when you create a repository, this will automatically create a LICENSE file for you.

License choice

By default, Nesta's work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License; however Creative Commons recommend against using it for software, therefore we have chosen the MIT license for software. If you have a good business reason to not use MIT, you should open an issue in nestauk/github_support and add a justification for this choice in your repository's README.md.

To align with Nesta's charitable objectives our work should be open source by default. Sometimes this isn't possible due to restrictive partnerships with other organisations. If you are forced to use a private repo (there is no other good reason), in the LICENSE file you should have a copyright notice to make your intentions explicit,

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