A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed. These uses are normally prohibited...

The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for...

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These...

work is granted by the authors in a license known as a free license, a free distribution license, or an open license, depending on the rights assigned....

A free license or open license grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software or the content, which would otherwise be prohibited by...

The Free Art License (FAL) (French: Licence Art Libre, LAL) is a copyleft license that grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative...

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

software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software...

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

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...

The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source...

of free license that mandates derivative works to be licensed. The other types of free license lack this requirement: for permissive licenses, attribution...

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

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies...

The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. The license is very similar to...

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

A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued...

Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his Ghostscript PostScript language interpreter. The license was...

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

Initiative and free to the Free Software Foundation. The Commons Clause, created by Fossa, Inc., is an addendum to an open-source software license that restricts...

The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users...

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

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

License v3 (GPLv3) The BSD License The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The Mozilla Public License (MPL) The Eclipse Public License The Free Software...

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

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

Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used...

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...

a similar license, libpng license, sometimes referred interchangeably as zlib/libpng license. The zlib license has been approved by the Free Software Foundation...

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