The Code Project Open License (CPOL) [1] is a free software license published by The Code Project, a community site for software developers. It is intended to provide developers who choose to share their code with a license that protects them and provides users of their code with a clear statement regarding how the code can be used. At present, the license is mainly applied to content that is being published on the site. Its main points subject to the terms of the license are (quoted from The Code Project):