Find a way of labeling the tools licenses about magictools HOT 7 CLOSED

Maybe we could use http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/, and tag open source items with 🆓 and proprietary with 💵? Would be nice to show GPL/MIT/BSD-licenses as well of course, but might become more cluttered?

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I guess for start the emoji icons seems a nice choice. Let's start with free and non-free first and then think the others licenses later.

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Guess we could also have a list of licenses, like:

🆓 = generally free/do whatever you want/open source license unknown ?
1️⃣ = GPL
2️⃣ = BSD
3️⃣ = MIT
4️⃣ = LGPL
5️⃣ = ...
... = ...
💵 = proprietary license

More licenses exist at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licenses. Think we can have a list at the bottom or something.

Also, those with academic/open source licenses we could specify as 💵/🆓 (or the specific license), so you know there might be a free option for you.

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or make icons find icons for the licenses, instead of numbers.

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You can also use code markup like free, gpl, etc

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It would also be useful to link the emoji/icon/markup to a description of each license as well, for those too lazy to google it 💯

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@Kavex did an awesome job, so i will close this for now. We can keep using what we have now.

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