List available licensing options

[lucas-bremond]

Below is a comparison table of common permissive licenses:

License	Code Use, Modification & Distribution	User Obligations	Patent License Grant	Linking code to other licenses	Trademark Grants
Apache 2.0	Permissive. Must notify users of code modifications.	Can’t remove copyright, patent, trademark and attribution notices	Yes: Explicitly defined	Permissive	Not allowed
MIT	Permissive	Future licensed software must contains a copy of license and copyright notice	Not explicitly defined	Permissive	Not mentioned. Advance permission required
BSD	Permissive	BSD 3-clause: avoid appearance that product is endorsed by the original developers	Not explicitly defined	Permissive	Not mentioned

Source: https://snyk.io/blog/mit-apache-bsd-fairest-of-them-all

Some interesting references:

• Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
• Choose an open source license
• Which License Should I Use? MIT vs. Apache vs. GPL
• MIT, Apache 2 or BSD license: Who is the fairest of them all?
• Why Choose Apache-2.0 License?
• What's the difference between Apache v2.0 and MIT license? What are the major consequences of using Apache software over MIT?

[lucas-bremond]

Issue #2 is now closed.