About

The FSFE is a partner organisation of NGI Zero (NGI0), a coalition organisations funded by the European Commmission to advice individuals and projects that wish to work on new ideas and technologies that contribute to the establishment of the Next Generation Internet. You can know more about FSFE’s envolvement in NGI0 here.

The FSFE has produced for NGI0 participants a series of documents and FAQs that explain Free Software legal and licensing issues, and how to manage these issues within a software project. Feel free to use the information of this website as you want. All content is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.

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Contact

If you have questions about your NGI0 project, feel always free to contact Gabriel and Lucas.

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How to use it?

The documents below will guide and help you with the most important issues regarding FOSS licensing. Just click on each document below to read and download. You can also clone the repository to always have the latest version of the documents.

If you spot a bug or something worng, please raise an issue in our GitHub repository.

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Best practices for Software Licensing

These best practices are an easy-do-implement summary of the legal to-dos for your project.

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FAQs and Background Information

With our FAQ you have answers for your most frequent questions about FOSS licensing.

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REUSE Initiative Tutorial

REUSE makes FOSS licensing easy to everybody. Learn more how your project can profit from that.

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Compliance Workflow

Questions about your involvement with FSFE in the course of your work with NGIO? Check our compliance workflow.

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FOSS Licenses and Compatibility Matrix

Learn more about the most common licenses and how they interconect within your project.

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