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Now that we covered the controversy of whether some licences are open-source/free software or not, let’s move on to which licence you should choose. I’ll start with some bad ideas of what not to do.
Well, I’m not sure it is a bad idea, but choosing a licence for a non-FOSS program is out of the scope for this document. I’m not going to stop you from trying, but neither can I help you with the licence choice. My best advice is to consult a lawyer.