A free license or open license is a license which allows others to reuse another creator’s work as they wish. Without a special license, these uses are...
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The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)...
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A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These...
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explicitly declared free. This is usually accomplished by referencing or including licensing statements from within the work. A free cultural work is, according...
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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 Free Art License (FAL) (French: Licence Art Libre, LAL) is a copyleft license that grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative...
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software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software...
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A free license or open license grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software or the content, which would otherwise be prohibited 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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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...
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License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...
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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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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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A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued...
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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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Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his Ghostscript PostScript language interpreter. The license was...
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The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. The license is very similar to...
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Source-available software (redirect from Shared source license)
Initiative and free to the Free Software Foundation. The Commons Clause, created by Fossa, Inc., is an addendum to an open-source software license that restricts...
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The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four...
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A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software...
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License v3 (GPLv3) The BSD License The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The Mozilla Public License (MPL) The Eclipse Public License The Free Software...
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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...
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Copyleft (redirect from Viral license)
patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...
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Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used...
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Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a free license by the artist or copyright holder themselves, often as a method of promotion...
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The zlib license is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed. It is also used...
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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...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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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 Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the...
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