What Source Code License to use for your project?

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Published on 2010-04-04T10:07:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 10:13 UTC
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I am starting this question to try and make a central point developers can use to choose what Source Code License to use for their projects.

What I am looking for out of this question are the following for the Licenses:

A short description of the License
What type of projects should this License be used for
Examples of existing projects that use this License

Some of the Licenses that I have in mind are the following:

Apache License 2.0
Artistic License/GPL
Eclipse Public License 1.0
GNU General Public License v2
GNU General Public License v3
GNU Lesser General Public License
MIT License
Mozilla Public License 1.1
New BSD License

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