Resources pertaining Licenses from our Open Source category

Affero - General Public License - Copyleft license

Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) - For Ghostscript

Aleph license - Programming language free for personal or commercial use.

Amoeba copyright notice - A free software OS.

Amulet License Agreement - Amulet License Agreement

Apache Server License - Also in the source code.

Apple/Disney: Squeak license - Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.

Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) - Apple's license for software released as source code.

Bixoft Public License - A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.

BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - License for 4.4BSD.

BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.

BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.

Christian Software Public License (CSPL) - Christianized variant of BSD license.

Commercially Restricted Open Source License - AN open source license designed to allow community development within a business framework.

Creative Commons - A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker

Debian Social Contract - License for Debian GNU/Linux.

E Licenses - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible

eCos License Overview - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.

eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL) - Variant of Netscape PL.

EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses - Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses

Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - For the EiffelBase library.

Freshmeat - Listings of browseable licenses and articles.

GNU Free Documentation License - A version of the GPL for reference material.

GNU General Public License (GPL) - One standard for licensing free software.

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.

GNU: List of Licenses - Various licenses and comments about them.

History of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) - A brief rundown from the Open Source advocacy body

IBM - Common Public License (CPL) - Open source software license.

IBM Public License - Big Blue's Open Source License.

LaTeX Project Public License - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.

Liberal Source Software (LSS) - Hybrid licensing model

License information for Xinu software - License for the XINU operating system

Licensing conditions for OCaml - OCaml is released under the LGPL.

Lua Copyright notice - From Brazil

Lucent Technologies - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement

Mandrake Linux Licensing - License for Mandrake Linux

Mozart License Agreement - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.

Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation

Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0 - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.

Open Group Public License - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software

Open Music License - Music-equivalent to the General Public License.

Open Source Initiative - Licenses - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.

Open Source Software Licensing Page - Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history

OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - Not a license itself

Python Copyright - Open source compliant

Quick Reference Guide - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses

Ricoh Source Code Public License - Ricoh Company

RTEMS License Information - RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL)

Ruby License - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.

SFL License Agreement - Covers iMatix Corp.

Tcl/Tk License Terms - By Regents of the University of California

The Artistic License - Perl package license.

Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL) - License for the Qt Free Edition.

Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing - Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.

Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - Fee based

W3C IPR Software Notice - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium

x-kernel Copyright Notice - Arizona Board of Regents

Zope Public License (ZPL) - Patterned after Apache license.