How to license your open source project

Every time I begin writing and making my open source projects available I seem to always omit the licensing bit.

The GitHub team have created the below site to help[1]:

http://choosealicense.com/

You can easily find out more about which license to choose, in addition to the license text itself.

[1] - https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license