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E Licenses Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language. http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.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/ Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) Apple's license for software released as source code. http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl/ 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 Apple/Disney: Squeak license Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation. http://squeak.org/license.html Christian Software Public License (CSPL) Christianized variant of BSD license. http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html x-kernel Copyright Notice Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/copyright.html LaTeX Project Public License Particularly suited for TeX-related programs. http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html GNU General Public License (GPL) One standard for licensing free software. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html IBM Public License Big Blue's Open Source License. http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright License for 4.4BSD. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html 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 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 eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL) Variant of Netscape PL. http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/ Mozart License Agreement Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language. http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.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 Lua Copyright notice From Brazil, programming language framework. http://www.lua.org/copyright.html GNU: List of Licenses Various licenses and comments about them. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright. http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html 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 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 Open Music License Music-equivalent to the General Public License. http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=209&lang= Aleph license Programming language free for personal or commercial use. http://www.aleph-lang.org/main/license.htm 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 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 BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights. http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html Liberal Source Software (LSS) Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses. http://www.elj.com/lss/ Open Source Initiative - Licenses Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ 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/ Ruby License Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL) License for the Qt Free Edition. http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html Quick Reference Guide A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias. http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/ 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/ GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Formerly: GNU Library GPL. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html IBM - Common Public License (CPL) Open source software license. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/license-cpl.html Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) For the EiffelBase library. http://www.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html Apache Server License Also in the source code. http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt Mandrake Linux Licensing License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flicensing.php3 Debian Social Contract License for Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html 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 BSD: FreeBSD Copyright License for FreeBSD operating system. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html Amoeba copyright notice A free software OS. http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT 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 Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS. http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html Netscape Public License (NPL) The NPL is similar to the Mozilla Public License. http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.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 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 Licensing conditions for OCaml OCaml is released under the LGPL. http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/LICENSE.html License information for Xinu software License for the XINU operating system http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html Amulet License Agreement CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211 Zope Public License (ZPL) Patterned after Apache license. http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/ eCos License Overview Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system. http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html Ricoh Source Code Public License Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems. http://www.risource.org/RPL/RPL-1.0A.shtml Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises. ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/PUBLIC Lucent Technologies, Inc. Plan 9 Open Source license agreement http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html The Artistic License Perl package license. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php

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