A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries...
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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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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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main categories of open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Both grant permission to change and distribute software. Typically, they require attribution...
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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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permissive MIT license dethroned the GPLv2 as most popular free-software license to the second place while the permissive Apache license follows already...
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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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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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The zlib license is a permissive software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed. It is also used by...
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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...
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Although the term "free software" had already been used loosely in the past and other permissive software like the Berkeley Software Distribution released...
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WTFPL (redirect from DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE)
The WTFPL is a permissive free software license. As a public domain like license, the WTFPL is essentially the same as dedication to the public domain...
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The GNU All-permissive License is a lax, permissive (non-copyleft) free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License, recommended by...
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License, and even further distinct from the more widely used permissive software licenses such as BSD, MIT, and Apache. Historically, the GPL license...
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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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Source License is a permissive free software license, based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license. By combining parts of these two licenses, it...
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This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following...
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disclaim liability. Permissive licenses come from academia. Copyleft licenses come from the free software movement. Copyleft licenses require derivative...
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Beerware (category Permissive software licenses)
tongue-in-cheek software license with permissive terms, which grants the right to do anything with the source code, assuming the license notice is preserved...
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waiver statement and a fall-back all-permissive license, for cases where the waiver is not valid. The Free Software Foundation and the Open Knowledge Foundation...
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liberalization of social norms in a society. Permissive software license, a free-software license. Permissive cell or permissive host, a cell which allows a virus...
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others as a middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License. As such, it allows the integration of...
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License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for...
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proprietary versions. Non-copyleft free software (i.e. software distributed under a permissive free software license or released to the public domain) allows...
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The Python License is a deprecated permissive computer software license created by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). It was used...
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public-domain software or permissive-licensed software, Stallman's copyleft license tries to enforce the free shareability of software also for the future...
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open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or...
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to use said software, with attribution, in derived commercial products). In the broad sense, any FOSS license is a source-available license. In the narrow...
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Flora License is a single purpose permissive software license used by the Linux Foundation in certain platform components of Tizen. The text of Flora...
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The Apple Public Source License (APSL) is the open-source and free software license under which Apple's Darwin operating system was released in 2000....
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