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...

groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project. For a list of licenses not specifically intended...

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...

MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change...

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose...

a license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in...

covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses. The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the...

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...

been one of the most popular software licenses in the free and open-source software (FOSS) domain. Prominent free software programs licensed under the...

zlib license has been approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as a free software license, and by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as an open source...

License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

addendum to an open-source software license that restricts users from selling the software. Under the combined license, the software is source-available...

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under an open-source license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the...

The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is...

certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...

Proprietary software is a subset of non-free software, a term defined in contrast to free and open-source software; non-commercial licenses such as CC...

The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on...

The Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the...

Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its...

Common Public License (CPL) is a free software / open-source software license published by IBM. The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative...

definitions of free software and open-source software respectively: List of FSF approved software licenses List of OSI approved software licenses The FSF list...

the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition). For such free/open content both movements recommend the same three Creative Commons licenses, the...

The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird....

earliest non-software free content licenses. The Open Content License, dated July 14, 1998, predates the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and other...

A software license server is a centralized computer software system which provides access tokens, or keys, to client computers in order to enable licensed...

used to license a font made by the US government. The Open Font License is a free software license, and as such permits the fonts to be used, modified,...

A software license manager is a software management tool used by independent software vendors or by end-user organizations to control where and how software...