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# License
A license is a legal text by which we grant others some rights that we hold over certain work. For our thing a license is what enables us to legally implement [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md): we attach a license to our program that says that we grant to everyone the basic freedom rights to our software with optional conditions (which must not be in conflict with free software definition, e.g. we may require [attribution](attribution.md) or [copyleft](copyleft.md)). We call these licenses *free licenses* ([open source](open_source.md) licenses work the same way). Of course, there also exist [non-free](proprietary.md) licenses called [EULAs](eula.md), but we stay away from these.
A license is a legal text by which we share some of our exclusive rights (e.g. [copyright](copyright.md)) over certain "[intellectual](intellectual_property.md)" works with others. For the purpose of this Wiki a license is what enables us to legally implement [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md) (as well as [free culture](free_culture.md)): we attach a license to our program that says that we grant to everyone the basic freedom rights to our software with optional conditions (which must not be in conflict with free software definition, e.g. we may require [attribution](attribution.md) or [copyleft](copyleft.md), but we may NOT require e.g. non-commercial use only). We call these licenses *free licenses* ([open source](open_source.md) licenses work the same way). Of course, there also exist [non-free](proprietary.md) licenses called [EULAs](eula.md), but we stay away from these.
At [LRS](lrs.md) we highly prefer [public domain](public_domain.md) [waivers](waiver.md) instead of licenses, i.e. we release our works without any conditions/restrictions whatsoever (e.g. we don't require credit, [copyleft](copyleft.md) and similar conditions, even if by free software rules we could). This is because we oppose the very idea of being able to own information and ideas, which any license is inherently based on. Besides that, licenses are not as legally [suckless](suckless.md) as public domain and they come with their own issues, for example a license, even if free, may require that you promote some political ideology you disagree with (see e.g. the principle of [+NIGGER](plusnigger.md)).
Some most notable free licenses for software include (FSF: FSF approved, OSI: OSI approved, LRS: approved by us, short: is the license short?):