- BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
License for FreeBSD operating system.
- Open Source Software Licensing Page - http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history, forms, and problems, seen from a commercial view. Links to some license texts and important open source sites.
- Apple/Disney: Squeak license - http://squeak.org/license.html
Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
- BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
- OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
- Python Copyright - http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html
Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
- Quick Reference Guide - http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/
A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
- eCos License Overview - http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
- x-kernel Copyright Notice - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/copyright.html
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
- E Licenses - http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
- Amulet License Agreement - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
- GNU: List of Licenses - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Various licenses and comments about them.
- Open Group Public License - http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
- IBM Public License - http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/license10.html
Big Blue's Open Source License.
- Tcl/Tk License Terms - http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/license_terms.html
By Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
- Mozart License Agreement - http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
- Ruby License - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
- W3C IPR Software Notice - http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
- SFL License Agreement - http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/sfl4.htm
Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
- Lua Copyright notice - http://www.lua.org/copyright.html
From Brazil, programming language framework.
- Bixoft Public License - http://www.bixoft.nl/english/license.htm
A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
- Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13
Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
- Affero - General Public License - http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
- Open Music License - http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=209&lang=
Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
- RTEMS License Information - http://www.rtems.com/license/index.html
RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
- Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
- The Artistic License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
Perl package license.
- Liberal Source Software (LSS) - http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/liblicence.txt
Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
- Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and an FAQ.
- MySQL - http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/
Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
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