Open Source Licenses by Category

.:: License Index ::.

License Approval Process License Information Origins and definitions of categories from the License Proliferation Committee report

.:: Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities ::.

*Apache License, 2.0 *New and Simplified BSD licenses *GNU General Public License (GPL) *GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL) *MIT license *Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) *Common Development and Distribution License *Common Public License 1.0 *Eclipse Public License

.:: Special purpose licenses ::.

*Educational Community License *NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 *Open Group Test Suite License

.:: Other/Miscellaneous licenses ::.

*Adaptive Public License *Artistic license 2.0 *Open Software License *Qt Public License (QPL) *zlib/libpng license

.:: Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses ::.

*Academic Free License *Attribution Assurance Licenses *Eiffel Forum License V2.0 *Fair License *Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer *Lucent Public License Version 1.02 *University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License *X.Net License

.:: Non-reusable licenses ::.

*Apple Public Source License *Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1 *CUA Office Public License Version 1.0 *EU DataGrid Software License *Entessa Public License *Frameworx License *IBM Public License *Motosoto License *Multics License *Naumen Public License *Nethack General Public License *Nokia Open Source License * OCLC Research Public License 2.0 *PHP License *Python license (CNRI Python License) *Python Software Foundation License *RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0 *Reciprocal Public License *Ricoh Source Code Public License *Sleepycat License *Sun Public License *Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 *Vovida Software License v. 1.0 *W3C License *wxWindows Library License *Zope Public License

.:: Superseded licenses ::.

*Apache Software License *Artistic license *Eiffel Forum License *Lucent Public License (Plan9) *Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL)

.:: Licenses that have been voluntarily retired ::.

*Intel Open Source License *Jabber Open Source License *MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License) *Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)

.:: Uncategorized Licenses ::.

*Affero GNU Public License *Boost Software License (BSL1.0) *Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (CPAL) *GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3) *GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3) *ISC License *Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) *Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) *NTP License *Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (RPL1.5) *Simple Public License 2.0

this article was taken from :
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category on June 12, 2008