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 | - |