By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.

Back in January, I blogged about tl;drLegal, an online resource to help us choose a suitable open-source licence. In the same spirit, the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague provide the Lindat license selector​ to help select open licenses for both software or data.

Through a short set of questions, the Lindat license selector can help guide you to a license that both meets your software and data sharing requirements while satisfying any existing constraints on any software or data you have exploited.

Furthermore, Lindat itself is open-source, available on GitHub under an MIT license. However, if you like to ponder your licence options at in a more leisurely way, then please check out our guide on Choosing an open-source licence.​