# Copyright and license of Julia packages

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**Created:** [June 3, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/copyright-and-license-of-julia-packages/129598 "2025-06-03T14:10:09Z")\
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> [@gwr](#):
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> Great topic and I just recently had that discussion in the Modelica community

Since you found this discussion interesting, I think it’s probably worth mentioning an earlier discussion that overlaps a bit with this one that you might also find to be of interest 🙂

> [@Package licenses: Contemplations and considerations](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/package-licenses-contemplations-and-considerations/117922):
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> I’ve recently been giving more thoughts to the way I license my packages. While I don’t anticipate the choice becoming practically significant any times soon, I’ve realised that the topic probably deserves more consideration that I’ve previously given it. Why we need to think about licenses While many of us want to “just do (F)OSS” without paying much attention to licenses, they are an unavoidable part of the landscape due to the way intellectual property law has developed over the last several…

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