Knowledge: licenses
Links
- BSD: FreeBSD Copyright
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html - License for FreeBSD operating system.
- Open Source Software Licensing Page
http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm - 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.
- Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL)
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/PUBLIC - For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
- BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html - License for 4.4BSD.
- BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution
http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
- BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy
http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
- GNU General Public License (GPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html - One standard for licensing free software.
- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
- Python Copyright
http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html - Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
- Zope Public License (ZPL)
http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/ - Patterned after Apache license.
- E Licenses
http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
- Debian Social Contract
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html - License for Debian GNU/Linux.
- Amulet License Agreement
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211 - CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
- Amoeba copyright notice
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT - A free software OS.
- License information for Xinu software
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html - License for the XINU operating system
- Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL)
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl/ - Apple's license for software released as source code.
- GNU: List of Licenses
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html - Various licenses and comments about them.
- Open Group Public License
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
- GNU Free Documentation License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html - A version of the GPL for reference material.
- Christian Software Public License (CSPL)
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html - Christianized variant of BSD license.
- Mozart License Agreement
http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
- Ruby License
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
- W3C IPR Software Notice
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
- Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html - Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
- Lua Copyright notice
http://www.lua.org/copyright.html - From Brazil, programming language framework.
- Bixoft Public License
http://www.bixoft.nl/english/license.htm - A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
- Open Source Initiative - Licenses
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
- Freshmeat
http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13 - Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
- Affero - General Public License
http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html - Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
- RTEMS License Information
http://www.rtems.com/license/index.html - RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
- Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/ - A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
- The Artistic License
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php - Perl package license.
- Liberal Source Software (LSS)
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/liblicence.txt - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
- Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and an FAQ.
- Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ - Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.
- MySQL
http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/ - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
- PHP Licence Information
http://www.php.net/license/ - Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources.
- Apache Server Licenses
http://www.apache.org/licenses/ - Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.
- Against DRM 2.0
http://www.freecreations.org/ - A free copyleft license for artworks, which forbids DRM. Includes licence text, FAQ, and a few translations.
- IBM - Common Public License (CPL)
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/ - Open source software license.
- Mozilla Public License Version 1.0
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.0.html - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
- LaTeX Project Public License
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/ - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
- eCos License Overview
http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
- Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL)
http://archive.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html - For the EiffelBase library.
- Lucent Technologies, Inc.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
- Quick Reference Guide
http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/ - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
- x-kernel Copyright Notice
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/xkernel/copyright.html - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
- OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd - Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
- Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL)
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/qpl - License for the Qt Free Edition.
- Squeak License
http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ - License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple.
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