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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.
http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL)
For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/PUBLIC
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/
Liberal Source Software (LSS)
Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
http://www.elj.com/lss/
GNU: List of Licenses
Various licenses and comments about them.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Open Group Public License
Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
GNU Free Documentation License
A version of the GPL for reference material.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
IBM Public License
Big Blue's Open Source License.
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html
Christian Software Public License (CSPL)
Christianized variant of BSD license.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
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
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.
http://www.denniskennedy.com/opensourcelaw.htm
OpenIPCore: Open Source Licenses
Link page.
http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/otherlic.shtml
Mozart License Agreement
Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
MySQL
Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Licensing_and_Support.html
Mandrake Linux Licensing
License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flicensing.php3
BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright
License for 4.4BSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/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
Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0
Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html
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
Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL)
For the EiffelBase library.
http://www.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html
Ricoh Source Code Public License
Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
http://www.risource.org/RPL/RPL-1.0A.shtml
Ruby License
Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
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
Open Source Initiative - Licenses
Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
Freshmeat
Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13
Affero - General Public License
Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
Open Music License
Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=209&lang=
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
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 organization which designs legal and technological tools to allow creators to designate their works as accessible in the public domain.
http://creativecommons.org/
Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL)
License for the Qt Free Edition.
http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html
The Artistic License
Perl package license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
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
Aleph license
Programming language free for personal or commercial use.
http://www.aleph-lang.org/main/license.htm
Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License
Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
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
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/
Lua Copyright notice
From Brazil, programming language framework.
http://www.lua.org/copyright.html
eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL)
Variant of Netscape PL.
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/
IBM - Common Public License (CPL)
Open source software license.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/license-cpl.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
Netscape Public License (NPL)
The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License.
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.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/
eCos License Overview
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html
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/
E Licenses
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
Apache Server License
Also in the source code.
http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt
Licensing conditions for OCaml
OCaml is released under the LGPL.
http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/LICENSE.html
Debian Social Contract
License for Debian GNU/Linux.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
LaTeX Project Public License
Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html
Amulet License Agreement
CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
Amoeba copyright notice
A free software OS.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT
License information for Xinu software
License for the XINU operating system
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html
BSD: FreeBSD Copyright
License for FreeBSD operating system.
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
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