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There are a ton of open source licenses to choose from when making a
project, and it's quite a big responsibility to choose wisely when
registering a project.  However, I don't know anything about the
differences between the various licenses.

I asked a question about it at the following URL and received a helpful response:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/39323

The response said that while Launchpad cannot get involved in the
"minefield" of offering legal advice :), you might be able to provide a
page with very general summaries and links to the official pages of each
license, so that the uninitiated can do our research more efficiently.

I can say that not knowing the licenses (but being required to choose at
least one upon registering a project) was a barrier to my using
Launchpad.

(And I do *want* to use Launchpad--very, very much!  You guys are have a
terrific project going here, and I can't wait to see if/what SourceForge
does in response, after sooo many years of hideous clunky interfaces… :)

** Affects: launchpad-documentation
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged

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Feature request: "More Info" page on open source licenses
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/251396
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