Create a New Project (Step 2): Choosing your project's license and profile

Creating a New Project: Index
  - Create a New Project (Step One): "Project Add" fields explained
  - You are here: Create a New Project (Step Two): Choosing your project's license and profile
  - Create a new project (Step Three): Inviting people to join your project
  - Project Creation Confirmation

> License
> Choose the license you wish to apply to the project. Licenses can range from the open source GPL to proprietary. Once your project is approved, you cannot switch from an open-source model to a proprietary one. However, proprietary projects can choose to go open source. To edit this feature of your project, you need to click on "Edit Project" link, once you have finished the process of creating the project. If you wish more information on your licensing options, please see the "Licenses" section.

> Project Category
> Select the category appropriate for your project. Because projects are listed by category in both the Start Page and Project Home pages, the choice of category is critical for giving developers a sense of the kind of work available. A developer who specializes in games, for example, will not necessarily want to view projects in the productivity category. As you can see, there are many possible options, and if you end up preferring another category, you can change your project category at any time. To edit this features of your project, click on "Edit Project" once you have finished creating the project.

> Project Profile
> The Project Profile buttons are configured to automatically create mailing lists for your particular project. Perhaps you have a project idea that will require much discussion and input from other developers well before getting to the point of actual source code; this would be a "Discussion project." If your project, on the other hand, involves reworking existing source code, choose "Standard development project." Selecting a content project generates one general mailing list; you would not have access to the issue-tracking system because it would not be necessary. Selecting the standard project profile generates five mailing lists, and gives you access to all of the other resources of the site, including issue tracking. It is important to stress that no matter what profile you choose, you can change it later.

In Create a new project (Step Three): Inviting people to join your project, we go through the page fields for inviting people to your project.

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