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...

groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project. For a list of licenses not specifically intended...

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...

MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...

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...

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...

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...

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified...

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...

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...

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...

certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...

of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the...

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...

Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its...

addendum to an open-source software license that restricts users from selling the software. Under the combined license, the software is source-available...

making profits from software that is under an open-source license. Each of these business strategies rest on the premise that users of open-source technologies...

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...

The Server Side Public License (SSPL) is a source-available copyleft software license introduced by MongoDB Inc. in 2018. It includes most of the text...

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...

retaining compatibility with popular free software licences such as the GNU General Public License. The first IDABC software packages mentioned are CIRCA groupware...

Distribution License (CDDL) is a free and open-source software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Files...

The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is...

The Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the...

The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird....

The Business Source License (SPDX id BUSL) is a software license which publishes source code but limits the right to use the software to certain classes...

been one of the most popular software licenses in the free and open-source software (FOSS) domain. Prominent free software programs licensed under 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 Initiative...

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...