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...
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groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project. For a list of licenses not specifically intended...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...
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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...
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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...
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A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...
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License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...
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been one of the most popular software licenses in the free and open-source software (FOSS) domain. Prominent free software programs licensed under the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
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addendum to an open-source software license that restricts users from selling the software. Under the combined license, the software is source-available...
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The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is...
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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...
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Copyleft (redirect from Protective software license)
certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...
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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...
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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...
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Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its...
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The Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the...
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Common Public License (CPL) is a free software / open-source software license published by IBM. The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative...
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A software license server is a centralized computer software system which provides access tokens, or keys, to client computers in order to enable licensed...
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definitions of free software and open-source software respectively: List of FSF approved software licenses List of OSI approved software licenses The FSF list...
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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,...
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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...
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earliest non-software free content licenses. The Open Content License, dated July 14, 1998, predates the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and other...
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The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird....
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GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies...
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