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Choosing the Right License for Your GitHub Repository
Why You Should License Your GitHub Repository When you publish code on GitHub without a license, you automatically retain full copyright. That means others can read your code, but they cannot legally copy it, modify it, or redistribute it. In short: Public does not automatically mean open source. No license means no permission for reuse. GitHub is explicit about this. For a repository to be considered open source, it must include a license that grants others the right to use,

Shannon
Dec 15, 20254 min read
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