Licenses
Licenses Links
- Open Source Software Licensing Page Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history, forms, and problems, seen from a commercial view. Links to some license texts and important open source sites.
- BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
- EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
- Cooperative Software: pub/License, dev/License Interesting, informative: plots many open source licenses in a 2d space.
- BSD: FreeBSD Copyright License for FreeBSD operating system.
- GNU Free Documentation License A version of the GPL for reference material.
- Python Copyright Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
- Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0 Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
- SFL License Agreement Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
- Open Group Public License Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
- MySQL Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
- Mozart License Agreement Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
- Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) For the EiffelBase library.
- Christian Software Public License (CSPL) Christianized variant of BSD license.
- Amoeba copyright notice A free software OS.
- GO! License Fairly open; forbids distributing via chip: ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, etc. By City University, London.
- Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) Apple's license for software released as source code.
- Licensing conditions for OCaml OCaml is released under the LGPL.
- Eiffel Forum License (EFL) Lists licenses for Eiffel software, replaces obsolete Eiffel Forum Freeware License (EFFL).
- RTEMS License Information RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
- BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
- Liberal Source Software (LSS) Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
- Zope Public License (ZPL) Patterned after Apache license.
- Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
- Lua Copyright notice From Brazil, programming language framework.
- Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) Hybrid license mixes proprietary and open source models: for hardware: chips, ASICs, boards.
- LaTeX Project Public License Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
- GNU General Public License (GPL) One standard for licensing free software.
- Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
- Mandrake Linux Licensing License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
- Bastard Public License "Protecting OSS Developers from the GPL Commies Since 1999". Claims to be "not a joke".
- E Licenses Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
- elastiC License For elastiC programming language.
- Open Source License Law Resource Center Comprehensive set of links and other resources about open source licenses, and legal issues regarding such licenses and use of open source software, by attorney Dennis Kennedy.
- W3C IPR Software Notice W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
- Apache Server License Also in the source code.
- OpenIPCore: Open Source Licenses Link page.
- License information for Xinu software License for the XINU operating system
- BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright License for 4.4BSD.
- The Tea Software License Walt Disney Company, Go.com's Java-based Tea template language.
- Ruby License Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
- Apple/Disney: Squeak license Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
- Debian Social Contract License for Debian GNU/Linux.
- Troll Tech: Q Public License (QPL) Vital for KDE.
- Aleph license Programming language free for personal or commercial use.
- GNU: List of Licenses Various licenses and comments about them.
- Lucent Technologies, Inc. Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
- Share Your Profits, Please (SYPP) license Hybrid license: open source shareware.
- The Artistic License Perl package license.
- IBM Public License Big Blue's Open Source License.
- eCos License Overview Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
- Cryptix License Like BSD but with no advertising clause. For cryptographic code.
- T3X License Very short and simple.
- Amulet License Agreement CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
- Netscape Public License (NPL) The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License.
- Ricoh Source Code Public License Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
- x-kernel Copyright Notice Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
- Tcl/Tk License Terms By Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
- OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
- eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL) Variant of Netscape PL.
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