Clarity
License information should be understandable without sacrificing accuracy or important context.
About us
We are a nonprofit initiative focused on collecting licenses, publishing useful guidance, and developing new licensing frameworks.
Open source collaboration depends on clear legal permissions, but license information is often scattered across projects, archives, and organizations. That makes discovery and comparison harder than it should be.
OpenSource.ngo brings that knowledge together. We preserve license texts and provenance, publish accessible guidance, and research new licenses for changing technical and social contexts.
License information should be understandable without sacrificing accuracy or important context.
The license commons includes widely used, historical, specialized, and newly developed licenses.
Reliable records should show where a license came from and preserve its authoritative text.
Licensing must continue to respond to changes in software, AI, data, and collaborative development.
Our nonprofit home
OpenSource.ngo is a focused licensing initiative of DigitalPlat Foundation. The Foundation is an independent U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity whose broader work supports Internet Freedom, open infrastructure, digital rights, and access to technology.
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Founder and maintainer
Edward Hsing is an open source advocate and infrastructure engineer.