FOSS A General Introduction/Annex II: Software Licenses

The following is a listing of common software licenses, in comparison to GPL: Table derived from: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html GPL-Compatible, Free Software Licenses The GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html The GNU Lesser General Public License, or GNU LGPL for short http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html The license of Guile - The license of the run-time units of the GNU Ada compiler - The X11 license http://www.x.org/terms.htm Expat license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt Standard ML of New Jersey Copyright License http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/license.html Public Domain - The Cryptix General License http://www.cryptix.org/docs/license.html The modified BSD license http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#5 The license of ZLib http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html The license of the iMatix Standard Function Library - The W3C Software Notice and License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html The Berkeley Database License http://www.sleepycat.com/license.net The OpenLDAP License, Version 2.7 http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html The License of Python 1.6a2 and earlier versions http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html The License of Python 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and newer versions http://www.python.org/2.0.1/license.html The Perl License - The Clarified Artistic License http://www.statistica.unimib.it/utenti/dellavedova/software/artistic2.html The Artistic License, 2.0 - The Zope Public License version 2.0 http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL The Intel Open Source License (as published by OSI) http://www.opensource.org/licenses/intel-open-source-license.html GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses The Arphic Public License ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/chinese-fonts-truetype/LICENSE The original BSD license http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#6 The Apache License, Version 1.0 http://www.apache.org/LICENSE-1.0 The Apache License, Version 1.1 http://www.apache.org/LICENSE-1.1 The Zope Public License version 1 http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL The license of xinetd http://www.xinetd.org/license] The License of Python 1.6b1 and later versions, through 2.0 and 2.1 http://www.handle.net/python_licenses/python1.6_9-5-00.html The old OpenLDAP License, Version 2.3 - The license of Vim, Version 5.7 - IBM Public License, Version 1.0 http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html Common Public License Version 0.5 http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v05.html The Phorum License, Version 1.2 http://phorum.org/license.txt The LaTeX Project Public License - The Mozilla Public License (MPL) http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html The Netizen Open Source License (NOSL), Version 1.0 http://bits.netizen.com.au/licenses/NOSL/nosl.txt The Interbase Public License, Version 1.0 http://www.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/IPL.html The Sun Public License http://www.netbeans.org/spl.html The Netscape Public License (NPL) http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.html The Jabber Open Source License, Version 1.0 http://www.jabber.com/license/index.shtml The Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.0 http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html The Q Public License (QPL), Version 1.0 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/licensing/qpl.html The FreeType license - The PHP License, Version 2.02 http://www.php.net/license/2_02.txt Non-Free Software Licenses The (Original) Artistic License http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html The Apple Public Source License (APSL) http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl/ The Sun Community Source License - The Plan 9 License - Open Public License http://koala.ilog.fr/jackaroo/OPL_1_0.TXT The Utah Public License - eCos Public License - The Sun Solaris Source Code (Foundation Release) License, Version 1.1 - The YaST License - Daniel Bernstein's licenses - The "Aladdin Free Public License" - The Scilab license - The AT&T Public License - The Jahia Community Source License -