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
Squeak License - License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple. - http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/
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/docs/osd
x-kernel Copyright Notice - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona. - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/xkernel/copyright.html
Quick Reference Guide - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias. - http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/
Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html
Against DRM 2.0 - A free copyleft license for artworks, which forbids DRM. Includes licence text, FAQ, and a few translations. - http://www.freecreations.org/
Apache Server Licenses - Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses. - http://www.apache.org/licenses/
PHP Licence Information - Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources. - http://www.php.net/license/
MySQL - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial. - http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/
Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and an FAQ. - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Liberal Source Software (LSS) - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses. - http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/liblicence.txt
The Artistic License - Perl package license. - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
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/
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
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
Freshmeat - Listings of browseable licenses and articles. - http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13
Open Source Initiative - Licenses - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
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
Lua Copyright notice - From Brazil, programming language framework. - http://www.lua.org/copyright.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
Ruby License - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms. - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
Mozart License Agreement - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language. - http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
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
Zope Public License (ZPL) - Patterned after Apache license. - http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/
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