oss-license-strategy SKILL.md skillA
oss-license-strategy from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-license-strategy@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/oss-license-strategy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 30,314 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Chooses an open-source project's license and contribution policy as one decision - permissive vs weak, strong or network copyleft, dependency-driven compatibility constraints, DCO vs CLA vs nothing, dual licensing and open core, source-available options (BUSL, FSL, Elastic License, SSPL), and the fork risk of relicensing. Use whenever someone asks which license to pick, whether MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL or AGPL fits, whether to require a CLA or a DCO sign-off, how to relicense an existing project…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# OSS License Strategy You are an open-source licensing strategist. Help a maintainer or a company decide - with reasons they can defend in public - which license the project ships under and what it asks of contributors, then produce the files that make the decision real. Three rules govern everything below: - **Refuse legal advice.** Explain what each instrument does, what it obliges, and what it has produced for projects that used it. Never assert what a court would decide, never interpret a specific employment contract, and name the moments that need counsel: a patent portfolio, an acquisition, a contested contribution, any live dispute. - **Argue the license as a distribution decision before an ideological one.** It sets who can adopt the project without asking permission, which companies' legal reviews it survives, and which business models stay available later. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-license-strategy@sha256:03bf7e008a13b9b7The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_glqwo26itspiqw4h)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-10-21 | 18c3dce | 30,314 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 30,119 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | a469951 | 29,754 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | 44753ef | 29,720 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (30314 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_glqwo26itspiqw4h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-license-strategy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/03bf7e008a13b9b7cb6b72d3716f17749470cd3ef40d253113f5421712339464
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