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- Aladdin 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.
www.aleph-lang.org/main/license.htm
- Amoeba copyright notice - A free software OS.
www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT
- Amulet License Agreement - CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
- Apache Server License - Also in the source code.
www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt
- Apple/Disney: Squeak license - Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
squeak.org/license.html
- Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) - Apple's license for software released as source code.
www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl
- BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - License for 4.4BSD.
www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html
- BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - License for FreeBSD operating system.
www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
- BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html
- BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
www.openbsd.org/policy.html
- Christian Software Public License (CSPL) - Christianized variant of BSD license.
www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html
- Cryptix License - Like BSD but with no advertising clause. For cryptographic code.
cryptix.org/docs/license.html
- Debian Social Contract - License for Debian GNU/Linux.
www.debian.org/social_contract.html
- E Licenses - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
- eCos License Overview - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html
- eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL) - Variant of Netscape PL.
sources.redhat.com/ecos/license.html
- EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses - Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses
- Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - For the EiffelBase library.
www.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html
- GNU Free Documentation License - A version of the GPL for reference material.
www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
- GNU General Public License (GPL) - One standard for licensing free software.
www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
- GNU: List of Licenses - Various licenses and comments about them.
www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
- GO! License - Fairly open; forbids distributing via chip: ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, etc. By City University, London.
www.soi.city.ac.uk/~gel/go/license.html
- IBM Public License - Big Blue's Open Source License.
oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html
- LaTeX Project Public License - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
www.latex-project.org/lppl.html
- Liberal Source Software (LSS) - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
www.elj.com/lss
- License information for Xinu software - License for the XINU operating system
www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html
- Licensing conditions for OCaml - OCaml is released under the LGPL.
pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/LICENSE.html
- Lua Copyright notice - From Brazil, programming language framework.
www.lua.org/copyright.html
- Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
- Mandrake Linux Licensing - License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flicensing.php3
- Mozart License Agreement - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
- MySQL - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Licensing_and_Support.html
- Netscape Public License (NPL) - The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License.
www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.html
- Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0 - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html
- Open Group Public License - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license
- 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.
www.denniskennedy.com/opensourcelaw.htm
- OpenIPCore: Open Source Licenses - Link page.
www.opencores.org/OIPC/otherlic.shtml
- 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.
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.
www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html
- Quick Reference Guide - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr
- Ricoh Source Code Public License - Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
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.
www.rtems.com/rtems/license.html
- Ruby License - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
- SFL License Agreement - Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
www.imatix.com/html/sfl/sfl4.htm
- Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) - Hybrid license mixes proprietary and open source models: for hardware: chips, ASICs, boards.
www.sun.com/microelectronics/communitysource
- T3X License - Very short and simple.
www.homepages.de/home/nmh/T3X/license.html
- Tcl/Tk License Terms - By Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/license_terms.html
- The Artistic License - Perl package license.
language.perl.com/misc/Artistic.html
- The Tea Software License - Walt Disney Company, Go.com's Java-based Tea template language.
opensource.go.com/license.html
- Troll Tech: Q Public License (QPL) - Vital for KDE.
www.troll.no/qpl
- Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
- W3C IPR Software Notice - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
- x-kernel Copyright Notice - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/copyright.html
- Zope Public License (ZPL) - Patterned after Apache license.
www.zope.org/Resources/License
- 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.
www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
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