OSI Approved Licenses

Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition – in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. To be approved by the Open Source Initiative (also known as the OSI) a license must go through the Open Source Initiative’s license review process.

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Apache License, Version 2.0 Apache-2.0
Common Development and Distribution License 1.0 CDDL-1.0
Eclipse Public License version 2.0 EPL-2.0
GNU General Public License version 2 GPL-2.0
GNU General Public License version 3 GPL-3.0-only
GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 LGPL-2.1
GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 LGPL-3.0-only
GNU Library General Public License version 2 LGPL-2.0-only
Mozilla Public License 2.0 MPL-2.0
The 2-Clause BSD License BSD-2-Clause
The 3-Clause BSD License BSD-3-Clause
The MIT License MIT