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...

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

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

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...

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 license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in...

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...

for software under copyright law, and therefore with licenses which grant the licensee specific rights, are proprietary software and free and open-source...

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

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

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

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

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

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

used to license a font made by the US government. The Open Font License is a free software license, and as such permits the fonts to be used, modified,...

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...

definitions of free software and open-source software respectively: List of FSF approved software licenses List of OSI approved software licenses The FSF list...

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...

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

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...

A software license server is a centralized computer software system which provides access tokens, or keys, to client computers in order to enable licensed...

changed the license of new versions of this software away from the open-source Apache License in favour of the Server Side Public License (SSPL). Amazon...

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

A software license manager is a software management tool used by independent software vendors or by end-user organizations to control where and how software...

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 Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition). For such free/open content both movements recommend the same three Creative Commons licenses, the...

GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for...

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