Adding a licence to your repository

### This repository does not appear to have a license.

Without a license, **no one is allowed to download, copy, modify, or use your code** — even though the repository is public.

Since your repo is public, you should provide a license to explicitly tell others how they may use your work. This typically means publishing your software under one of the OSI approved licences, or in the case of non-code contributions one of the Creative Commons licences that supports derivative works. REG's default choices are:

- [BSD-3-Clause](https://opensource.org/license/BSD-3-clause) for [permissive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license) source code licencing.
- [AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html) for [copyleft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft) code licencing.
- [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) for [permissive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license) licensing of non-code content.
- [CC-BY-SA-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) for [copyleft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft) licensing of non-code content.

**Note that to change the license of an existing project, you need the permission of all copyright holders, i.e. everyone who has contributed. This is one reason to add a license early on.**

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### What to do

#### 1. Choose a license

To select the best license for your repo you may wish to use one of the licenses listed above or use [choosealicense.com](https://choosealicense.com/) or [opensource.org/licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses) to help you choose.

#### 2. Add your license to the repository

Follow the GitHub [docs](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository) on how to add a license to your repository:

1. Go to the repository root
2. Click **Add file** → **Create new file**
3. Name the file `LICENSE`, `LICENSE.md`, or `LICENSE.txt`
4. Click **Choose a license template** and select one that fits your needs

#### 3. Close this issue

Once you've added a license, please close this issue.

If this repository is intentionally unlicensed, please close this issue with a comment explaining why. If you want to forbid use of your code, we still recommend adding a proprietary license to make your intent clear.

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