Affero - General Public License
Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
http://www.affero.org/oagpl.htmlAladdin Free Public License (AFPL)
For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/PUBLIC
Aleph license
Programming language free for personal or commercial use.
http://www.aleph-lang.org/main/license.htm
Amoeba copyright notice
A free software OS.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT
Amulet License Agreement
CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
Apache Server License
Also in the source code.
http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt
Apple/Disney: Squeak license
Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
http://squeak.org/license.html
Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL)
Apple's license for software released as source code.
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl/
Bixoft Public License
A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
http://www.bixoft.nl/english/license.htm
BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright
License for 4.4BSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html
BSD: FreeBSD Copyright
License for FreeBSD operating system.
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution
License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html
BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy
License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
Christian Software Public License (CSPL)
Christianized variant of BSD license.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html
Commercially Restricted Open Source License
AN open source license designed to allow community development within a business framework.
http://www.timpatrick.com/articles/crosl/index.html
Creative Commons
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.
http://creativecommons.org/
Debian Social Contract
License for Debian GNU/Linux.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
E Licenses
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
eCos License Overview
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html
eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL)
Variant of Netscape PL.
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/
EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses
Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/
Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL)
For the EiffelBase library.
http://www.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html
Freshmeat
Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13
GNU Free Documentation License
A version of the GPL for reference material.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
GNU General Public License (GPL)
One standard for licensing free software.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
GNU: List of Licenses
Various licenses and comments about them.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
IBM - Common Public License (CPL)
Open source software license.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/license-cpl.html
IBM Public License
Big Blue's Open Source License.
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html
LaTeX Project Public License
Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html
Liberal Source Software (LSS)
Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
http://www.elj.com/lss/
License information for Xinu software
License for the XINU operating system
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html
Licensing conditions for OCaml
OCaml is released under the LGPL.
http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/LICENSE.html
Lua Copyright notice
From Brazil, programming language framework.
http://www.lua.org/copyright.html
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
Mandrake Linux Licensing
License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flicensing.php3
Mozart License Agreement
Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
Netscape Public License (NPL)
The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License.
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.html
Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0
Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html
Open Group Public License
Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
Open Music License
Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=209&lang=
Open Source Initiative - Licenses
Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
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.
http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
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.
http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
Python Copyright
Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html
Quick Reference Guide
A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/
Ricoh Source Code Public License
Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
http://www.risource.org/RPL/RPL-1.0A.shtml
RTEMS License Information
RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
http://www.rtems.com/license/index.html
Ruby License
Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
SFL License Agreement
Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/sfl4.htm
Tcl/Tk License Terms
By Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/license_terms.html
The Artistic License
Perl package license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL)
License for the Qt Free Edition.
http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html
Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License
Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
W3C IPR Software Notice
W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
x-kernel Copyright Notice
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/copyright.html
Zope Public License (ZPL)
Patterned after Apache license.
http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/
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