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Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Luszcz <160953253+Jeffrey-Luszcz@users.noreply.github.com>
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Dependencies with **source-available licenses**, such as the Business Source License [BSL](https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html) or the Server Side Public License [SSPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License), may appear to be under open source licenses but come with usage and business model restrictions. These restrictions may prevent your project from being considered Open Source as defined by the [Open Source Initiative (OSI)](https://opensource.org/).
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Projects often rely on **non-source code content**, such as images, icons, videos, fonts, data files, or other materials, which are governed by their own licenses. As with traditional software dependencies, the licenses these materials range from Commercial to permissive to Copyleft. The [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/), a non-profit organization, created a series of license popular with non-source content. Creative Commons licenses range from very permissive [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) to Permissive [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) to copyleft [CC-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). They also can sometime restrict commercial use by adding a non-commercial (NC) option to these licenses.
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Projects often rely on **non-source code content**, such as images, icons, videos, fonts, data files, or other materials, which are governed by their own licenses. As with traditional software dependencies, the licenses these materials range from Commercial to permissive to Copyleft. The [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/), a non-profit organization, created a series of licenses popular for non-source content. Creative Commons licenses range from very permissive [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) to Permissive [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) to copyleft [CC-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). They also can sometime restrict commercial use by adding a non-commercial (NC) option to these licenses.
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You may also want to consider the **communities** you hope will use and contribute to your project:
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* **Do you want your project to be used as a dependency by other projects?** Probably best to use the most popular license in your relevant community. For example, [MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/) is the most popular license for [npm libraries](https://libraries.io/search?platforms=NPM).

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