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- 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.
- Affero
- General Public License
Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL,
designed to protect software distributed as
web services.
- Aladdin
Free Public License (AFPL)
For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
- Aleph
license
Programming language free for personal or
commercial use.
- Amoeba
copyright notice
A free software OS.
- Amulet
License Agreement
CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
- Apache
Server License
Also in the source code.
- Apple:
Apple Public Source License (APSL)
Apple's license for software released
as source code.
- Apple/Disney:
Squeak license
Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted
even during transition to different corporation.
- The
Artistic License
Perl package license.
- Bixoft
Public License
A proposal for an Open Source license that
clearly distinguishes between software programs
and programming tools.
- BSD:
4.4BSD Copyright
License for 4.4BSD.
- BSD:
FreeBSD Copyright
License for FreeBSD operating system.
- BSD:
NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution
License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
- BSD:
OpenBSD Copyright Policy
License and background on Berkeley Computer
Systems Research Group copyrights.
- Christian
Software Public License (CSPL)
Christianized variant of BSD license.
- Commercially
Restricted Open Source License
AN open source license designed to allow community
development within a business framework.
- Creative
Commons
A non-profit organization which designs legal
and technological tools to allow creators
to designate their works as accessible in
the public domain.
- Cryptix
License
Like BSD but with no advertising clause. For
cryptographic code.
- Debian
Social Contract
License for Debian GNU/Linux.
- E
Licenses
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming
language.
- eCos
License Overview
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating
system.
- eCos:
Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL)
Variant of Netscape PL.
- EFF
Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses
Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses,
includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
- Eiffel:
ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL)
For the EiffelBase library.
- Freshmeat
Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
- GNU
Free Documentation License
A version of the GPL for reference material.
- GNU
General Public License (GPL)
One standard for licensing free software.
- GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
- GNU:
List of Licenses
Various licenses and comments about them.
- IBM
- Common Public License (CPL)
Open source software license.
- IBM
Public License
Big Blue's Open Source License.
- LaTeX
Project Public License
Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
- Liberal
Source Software (LSS)
Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial
software licenses.
- License
information for Xinu software
License for the XINU operating system
- Licensing
conditions for OCaml
OCaml is released under the LGPL.
- Lua
Copyright notice
From Brazil, programming language framework.
- Lucent
Technologies, Inc.
Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
- Mandrake
Linux Licensing
License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
- Mozart
License Agreement
Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming
language.
- MySQL
Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL,
LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
- Netscape:
Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0
Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
- Netscape
Public License (NPL)
The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License.
- Open
Group Public License
Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public
End User License.
- Open Music
License
Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
- Open
Source Initiative - Licenses
Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source
Initiative.
- 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.
- OpenIPCore:
Open Source Licenses
Link page.
- 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.
- Python
Copyright
Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible,
the only incompatibility is inclusion of a
choice-of-law clause.
- Quick
Reference Guide
A chart comparing attributes of major licenses,
including the option to select your bias.
- Ricoh
Source Code Public License
Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and
office automation systems.
- RTEMS
License Information
RTEMS open source real-time operating system
uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for
some special, very limited exceptions.
- Ruby
License
Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
- SFL
License Agreement
Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library
(C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable
files.
- Tcl/Tk License
Terms
By Regents of the University of California,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
- Troll
Tech: Q Public License (QPL)
Vital for KDE.
- Vita
Nuova Inferno Subscription License
Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent
network OS.
- W3C IPR
Software Notice
W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the
Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
- x-kernel
Copyright Notice
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
- Zope
Public License (ZPL)
Patterned after Apache license.
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