Licenses by Name
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The following licenses have been approved by the OSI via the License Review Process.
- Academic Free License 3.0 (AFL 3.0)
- Affero GNU Public License
- Adaptive Public License
- Apache License, 2.0
- Apple Public Source License
- Artistic license 2.0
- Attribution Assurance Licenses
- New and Simplified BSD licenses
- Boost Software License (BSL1.0)
- Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1
- Common Development and Distribution License
- Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (CPAL)
- CUA Office Public License Version 1.0
- EU DataGrid Software License
- Eclipse Public License
- Educational Community License, Version 2.0
- Eiffel Forum License V2.0
- Entessa Public License
- European Union Public License (link to every language's version on their site)
- Fair License
- Frameworx License
- GNU General Public License (GPL)
- GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)
- Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer
- IBM Public License
- IPA Font License
- ISC License
- Lucent Public License Version 1.02
- MirOS Licence
- Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
- Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)
- MIT license
- Motosoto License
- Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
- Multics License
- NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3
- NTP License
- Naumen Public License
- Nethack General Public License
- Nokia Open Source License
- Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0 (Non-Profit OSL 3.0)
- OCLC Research Public License 2.0
- Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1)
- Open Group Test Suite License
- Open Software License 3.0 (OSL 3.0)
- PHP License
- The PostgreSQL License
- Python license (CNRI Python License)
- Python Software Foundation License
- Qt Public License (QPL)
- RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0
- Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (RPL1.5)
- Ricoh Source Code Public License
- Simple Public License 2.0
- Sleepycat License
- Sun Public License
- Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0
- University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
- Vovida Software License v. 1.0
- W3C License
- wxWindows Library License
- X.Net License
- Zope Public License
- zlib/libpng license
You can also view a list of open source licenses grouped by category, and licenses which have been superceded or retired.
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Comments
Licensing
Hi I just read the licenses above how and what licence should I have, if any? Please come back to me on this.....this stuff is all very very new to me....cheers, Robyn
You'll find more guidance on
You'll find more guidance on the licenses by category page.
OSS List Names (Java, Eclipse, PHP, etc)
Looking for the list of unique Open Source Software names (like Java, Eclipse, PHP, MySQL), not Open Source Software License Types(like Sun Public License, Common Public License, etc). Does OSI maintain such list or is there another organization or web source that maintains such list of actual Open Source Software names?
Probably best to search on
Probably best to search on freshmeat.net or just google for the name you want to use.