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| x Python Software Foundation | Open-source license |
The Python Software Foundation (PSF), is a non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language. It was launched March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community. The PSF is responsible for...
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| x GNU General Public License |
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Open-source license |
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that...
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| x GNU Lesser General Public License |
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Open-source license |
The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General...
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| x BSD Licenses | Open-source license |
BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. The original was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system after which the license is named. The original owners of BSD were the Regents of...
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| x Public domain |
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The public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use...
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| x Mozilla Public License |
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Open-source license |
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation. The MPL is...
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| x RealNetworks Community Source License |
The RealNetworks Community Source License (RCSL) is a software license. Developers pick this license when they do not want to open source their resultant Helix DNA-based application. RCSL has a free R&D; license and commercial terms for distribution...
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| x Artistic License | Open-source license |
The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License (version 1.0), a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under...
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| x Commercial | ||||
| x MIT License | Open-source license |
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), used by the MIT X Consortium.
It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the...
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| x PHP License | Open-source license |
The PHP License is the software license under which the PHP programming language is released. The PHP License is a GPL incompatible free software license according to the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative due to restrictions on...
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| x Ruby License |
The Ruby License is the open-source license applied to the Ruby programming language and also available to be used in other projects.
The Free Software Foundation comments: "This is a Free Software license, compatible with the GPL via an explicit...
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| x W3C Software Notice and License |
W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive free software licence used by software released by W3C, like Amaya.
It's similar to the modified BSD license. According to the Free Software Foundation, it is compatible with the GNU General Public...
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| x Free software license |
A free software license is a software license which grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software which would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law. A free software license grants, to the recipients, freedoms in the form of...
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| x Apache License | Apache License 1.0 | Open-source license |
The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2.0) is a free-software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The Apache License (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0) requires preservation of the copyright notice and...
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| Apache License 2.0 | ||||
| x Common Public License | Open-source license |
In computing, the CPL (Common Public License) is a Free Software / open-source software license published by IBM. The Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation have approved the license terms of the CPL.
The CPL has the stated aims of...
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| x Beggarware | ||||
| x Academic discount license | ||||
| x Freeware |
Freeware (from "free" and"software") is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is generally proprietary software available at zero price, and is not free software. The author usually restricts one or...
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| x Shareware |
The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace, refers to proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability or convenience. Shareware is often...
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| x Microsoft Permissive Licence | ||||
| x Eclipse Public License | Open-source license |
The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is an open source software license used by the Eclipse Foundation for its software. It replaces the Common Public License (CPL) and removes certain terms relating to patent litigation.
The Eclipse Public License is...
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| x BSD3 License |
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the...
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| x Commercial License |
A commercial software license is typically used to sell the right to use software to users against payment.
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| x Zope Public License | Open-source license |
Zope Public License is a free software license, used primarily for the Zope application server software. The license is similar to the well-known BSD license, however the ZPL also adds clauses prohibiting trademark use and requiring documentation of...
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| x Lucent Public License | Open-source license |
The Lucent Public License is an open-source license created by Lucent Technologies. It has been released in two versions: Version 1.0 and 1.02.
While the Lucent Public License is not one of the more popular open-source licenses, a number of products...
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| x Common Development and Distribution License | Open-source license |
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is a free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL), version 1.1.
Files licensed under the CDDL can be combined with files licensed under other...
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| x Educational Community License | Open-source license |
Open Source Initiative's Educational Community License is a free and open source license intended for use by academic institutions. It is approved by the Open Source Initiative, and the Free Software Foundation lists the second version of this...
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International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" (for its official corporate colour), is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The...
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| x Initial Developer's Public License | ||||
| x GPL/MPL/LGPL tri-license | ||||
| x POV-Ray License | ||||
| x Donationware |
Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational software to the user and requests a donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary (usually a non-profit). The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the...
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| x Giftware |
A type of software license that "gave" the software licensing to its user to be used for any purpose.
For example, the Allegro library for computer game development is licensed under a giftware license (available here, on the official website)....
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| x Open-source license | Open Group Test Suite License |
An open source license is a copyright license for computer software that makes the source code available under terms that allow for modification and redistribution without having to pay the original author. Such licenses may have additional...
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| Common Public License | ||||
| Microsoft Public License | ||||
| Common Development and Distribution License | ||||
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| x Open Group Test Suite License | Open-source license | |||
| x Microsoft Public License | Open-source license | |||
| x Zlib/libpng license | Open-source license |
The zlib License is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib and libpng software libraries can be distributed. It is also used by other free software packages, e.g., on SourceForge.
The zlib License has been...
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| x Affero General Public License | Open-source license |
The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL (and sometimes informally called the Affero license), refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:
Both versions of the AGPL were designed to...
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| x Microsoft Reciprocal License | Open-source license | |||
| x NASA Open Source Agreement | Open-source license |
The NASA Open Source Agreement (NOSA) is an OSI-approved software license. The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) releases some software (such as NASA World Wind) under this license. The NOSA allows NASA to increase...
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| x Adaptive Public License | Open-source license |
The Adaptive Public License (APL) is an Open Source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.
The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the...
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| x Q Public License | Open-source license |
The Q Public License (QPL) is a non-copyleft free software license created by Trolltech for its free edition of the Qt toolkit. It captures the general meaning of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), but is incompatible with it, meaning that you...
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| x ISC licence | Open-source license |
The ISC license is a permissive free software license written by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is functionally equivalent to the 2-clause BSD license, with language "made unnecessary by the Berne convention" removed. Initially used for...
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| x Open Software License | Open-source license |
The Open Software License (OSL) is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open source license, but the Debian project judged version 1.1 to be incompatible with the DFSG. The OSL is a...
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| x Academic Free License | Open-source license |
The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, then general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apache licenses —...
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| x Attribution Assurance Licenses | Open-source license | |||
| x Eiffel Forum License | Open-source license |
The Eiffel Forum License (EFL) is a free software license written by NICE, the Non-Profit International Consortium for Eiffel. Version 2 of the license, the latest as of 2008, is the first version to be GPL compatible. EFLv2 has been approved by the...
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| x Fair License | Open-source license | |||
| x Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer | Open-source license |
The Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer is an open source license, approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). It is unique among the OSI's licenses because of the choices it allows in its construction; it lets you pick anywhere from 0-2...
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| x University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License | Open-source license |
The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License is a permissive free software licence, based on the MIT/X11 and BSD licenses. By combining parts of these two licenses, it attempts to be clearer and more concise than either.
The license is the...
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| x X.Net License | Open-source license | |||
| x Apple Public Source License | Open-source license |
The Apple Public Source License is the open source and free software license under which Apple's Darwin operating system was released. A free software and open source license was voluntarily adopted to further involve the community from which much...
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| x Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License | Open-source license |
Reason the license was written:Computer Associates International (CA) wrote the license. It all began 2 years ago, when CA announced its plan to make the source code for its Ingres database on Linux available for download within 90 days. CA-TOSL was...
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| x CUA Office Public License | Open-source license | |||
| x Entessa Public License | Open-source license | |||
| x EU DataGrid Software License | Open-source license | |||
| x Frameworx License | Open-source license |
The Frameworx License is a GPL compatible Open-source license.
The organization that wrote this license the Frameworx Open license is The Frameworx Company. It does not relate to a specific program but it is widely used by many open source software...
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| x IBM Public License | Open-source license |
The IBM Public License (IPL) is a free software / open-source software license written and sometimes used by IBM. It is approved by the Open Source Initiative and is described as a "free software license" by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
The...
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