A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries... 25 KB (2,743 words) - 13:02, 18 January 2024 |
MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it... 26 KB (2,659 words) - 16:43, 6 May 2024 |
 | open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Permissive licenses come from academia. They grant permission to modify and distribute software. They usually... 39 KB (4,547 words) - 18:25, 9 April 2024 |
 | 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... 11 KB (1,211 words) - 05:30, 27 April 2024 |
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is... 29 KB (3,234 words) - 01:58, 29 March 2024 |
 | permissive MIT license dethroned the GPLv2 as most popular free-software license to the second place while the permissive Apache license follows already... 56 KB (6,377 words) - 14:22, 24 March 2024 |
 | Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its... 4 KB (302 words) - 20:04, 26 March 2024 |
The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is... 12 KB (1,143 words) - 17:51, 1 May 2024 |
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... 4 KB (391 words) - 19:41, 28 April 2023 |
The GNU All-permissive License is a lax, permissive (non-copyleft) free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License, recommended by... 4 KB (398 words) - 13:17, 24 December 2023 |
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... 4 KB (318 words) - 00:56, 14 August 2023 |
The Python License is a deprecated permissive computer software license created by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). It was used... 3 KB (292 words) - 00:18, 16 April 2022 |
 | Although the term "free software" had already been used loosely in the past and other permissive software like the Berkeley Software Distribution released... 51 KB (5,515 words) - 14:06, 28 April 2024 |
including proprietary licenses; there is thus no guarantee that all derived works will remain under a permissive license. License compatibility can be... 52 KB (5,778 words) - 07:51, 3 May 2024 |
 | 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... 13 KB (1,333 words) - 03:41, 3 May 2024 |
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... 39 KB (1,911 words) - 06:00, 27 April 2024 |
licenses. Public domain licenses Creative Commons CC0 WTFPL Unlicense Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) Permissive licenses Apache License BSD... 5 KB (510 words) - 04:55, 28 January 2024 |
 | GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies... 11 KB (1,257 words) - 06:53, 27 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,798 words) - 14:47, 15 April 2024 |
 | public-domain software or permissive-licensed software, Stallman's copyleft license tries to enforce the free shareability of software also for the future... 34 KB (3,948 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2024 |
| 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... 17 KB (1,775 words) - 19:33, 8 March 2024 |
the Apache License is compatible with the copyleft GPLv3, the GPLv3 is not compatible with the permissive Apache license — Apache software can be included... 23 KB (2,605 words) - 22:48, 17 November 2023 |
 | Copyleft (redirect from Protective software license) certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information... 44 KB (4,943 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2024 |
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... 27 KB (2,932 words) - 19:43, 14 December 2023 |
proprietary versions. Non-copyleft free software (i.e. software distributed under a permissive free software license or released to the public domain) allows... 43 KB (5,163 words) - 15:06, 10 April 2024 |
 | Public License, and even further distinct from the more widely-used permissive software licenses BSD, MIT, and Apache. Historically, the GPL license family... 131 KB (15,434 words) - 20:18, 5 May 2024 |
Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC license, is a permissive free software license, based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license. By combining... 6 KB (672 words) - 02:30, 24 February 2023 |
Beerware (category Permissive software licenses) beerware license variant as extremely permissive "copyright only" license, and consider it as GPL compatible. As of 2016[update] the Free Software Foundation... 5 KB (426 words) - 13:21, 24 December 2023 |
others as a middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License. So under the terms of the MPL, it allows... 20 KB (1,877 words) - 20:14, 24 January 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,392 words) - 10:44, 9 April 2024 |