Markdown License Badges for your Project

license-badges.md

Markdown License badges

Collection of License badges for your Project's README file.
This list includes the most common open source and open data licenses.
Easily copy and paste the code under the badges into your Markdown files.

Notes

• The badges do not fully replace the license informations for your projects, they are only emblems for the README, that the user can see the License at first glance.

Translations: (No guarantee that the translations are up-to-date)

• 🇫🇷 Cette liste en français
• 🇨🇳🇹🇼 这个中文名单
• 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Esta lista em Português
• 🇩🇪🍺 Diese Liste auf Deutsch
• 🇰🇷 한국어로 된 이 목록
• 🇷🇺 Этот список на русском языке
• 🇮🇹 Questo elenco in italiano
• 🇪🇸 Esta lista en español
• 🇹🇷 Bu liste Türkçe
• 🇯🇵 日本語版リスト

Further informations:

• Badges are made with Shields.io.
• Github has a new autodetection for LICENSE files, which shows the license at the repo overview
• Shields.io has autogenerated license badges: https://img.shields.io/github/license/<Github-Username>/<Repository>
• Really nice: https://choosealicense.com/ (if you are unsure, which license to choose)

Want to add a License?

Comment this gist or write me an E-Mail (lukas@himsel.me)

Apache

Apache 2.0 License

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)

Boost

Boost Software License 1.0

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Boost_1.0-lightblue.svg)](https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

BSD

BSD 3-Clause License

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD_3--Clause-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)

BSD 2-Clause License

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD_2--Clause-orange.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)

Creative Commons

Choose on CreativeCommons.org

CC0

[![License: CC0-1.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/zero/1.0/80x15.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

[![License: CC0-1.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC0_1.0-lightgrey.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Attribution 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY-SA 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY-SA 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY--SA_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY-NC 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY-NC 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY--NC_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Attribution-NoDerivates 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY-ND 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nd/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY-ND 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY--ND_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)

Attribution-NonCommmercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY--NC--SA_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

[![License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/80x15.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

[![License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY--NC--ND_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

Eclipse

Eclipse Public License 1.0

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-EPL_1.0-red.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/EPL-1.0)

GNU

GNU GPL v3

[![License: GPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPLv3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)

GNU GPL v2

[![License: GPL v2](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL_v2-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)

GNU AGPL v3

[![License: AGPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL_v3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0)

GNU LGPL v3

[![License: LGPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-LGPL_v3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0)

GNU FDL v1.3

[![License: FDL 1.3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-FDL_v1.3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3)

The Organization for Ethical Source

The Hippocratic License 2.1

[![License: Hippocratic 2.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Hippocratic_2.1-lightgrey.svg)](https://firstdonoharm.dev)

The Hippocratic License 3.0

[![License: Hippocratic 3.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Hippocratic_3.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://firstdonoharm.dev)

IBM

IBM Public License Version 1.0

[![License: IPL 1.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-IPL_1.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/IPL-1.0)

ISC

ISC License (ISC)

[![License: ISC](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-ISC-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC)

MIT

The MIT License

[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Mozilla

Mozilla Public License 2.0

[![License: MPL 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MPL_2.0-brightgreen.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0)

Open Data Commons

Attribution License (BY)

[![License: Open Data Commons Attribution](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-ODC_BY-brightgreen.svg)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/)

Open Database License (ODbL)

[![License: ODbL](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-ODbL-brightgreen.svg)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/)

Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

[![License: ODbL](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-PDDL-brightgreen.svg)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/)

Perl

The Perl License

[![License: Artistic-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Perl-0298c3.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0)

The Artistic License 2.0

[![License: Artistic-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Artistic_2.0-0298c3.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0)

SIL

SIL Open Font License 1.1

[![License: Open Font-1.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-OFL_1.1-lightgreen.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/OFL-1.1)

Unlicense

The Unlicense

[![License: Unlicense](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Unlicense-blue.svg)](http://unlicense.org/)

WTFPL

The Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License

[![License: WTFPL](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-WTFPL-brightgreen.svg)](http://www.wtfpl.net/about/)

Zlib

The zlib/libpng License

[![License: Zlib](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Zlib-lightgrey.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib)

Hi @maciejskorski,

you can create your own custom badges here: shields.io

I just made a list with a few shortcuts for OSS licenses, so you don't have to write them yourselves with shields.io

Where is BSD-4-clause?

Greate work! Thank you.

Hey,

Would you mind adding the ELv2 (Elastic v2) License?

Thank you

This is very helpful. 😘

Great work! Thank you.

This is amazing and really helpful, thank you @lukas-h

This is great thanks.

Thanks, mate.

Thank you so much for putting this together, it is very helpful.

I've noticed what looks like a bug/typo - the Apache 2.0 is "blue" in the URL provided whereas the example badge uses a colour of "yellowgreen". Presumably these need to align (and my guess is that it is intended to be yellowgreen).

I'm not aware of how to paste links without rendering the badges:

URL provided:

This has "License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg" in it

Badge example

This has "License-Apache_2.0-yellowgreen.svg" in it

Please add

https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Business_Source_1.1-red