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Computers, Open Source, Licenses



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Editor's Picks:

- Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history, forms, and problems, seen from a commercial view. Links to some license texts and important open source sites.


  • - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
  • - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
  • - Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
  • - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
  • - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
  • - Also in the source code.
  • - License for the XINU operating system
  • - Christianized variant of BSD license.
  • - A free software OS.
  • - Patterned after Apache license.
  • - AN open source license designed to allow community development within a business framework.
  • - Open source software license.
  • - OCaml is released under the LGPL.
  • - Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
  • - Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
  • - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
  • - License for the Qt Free Edition.
  • - Variant of Netscape PL.
  • - A version of the GPL for reference material.
  • - Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
  • - A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
  • - Various licenses and comments about them.
  • - One standard for licensing free software.
  • - RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
  • - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and an FAQ.
  • - License for Debian GNU/Linux.
  • - Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
  • - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
  • - License for FreeBSD operating system.
  • - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
  • - License for 4.4BSD.
  • - Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.
  • - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
  • - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
  • - Apple's license for software released as source code.
  • - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
  • - Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
  • - CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
  • - Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
  • - License for Mandrake Linux, based on the GPL.
  • - Big Blue's Open Source License.
  • - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
  • - Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
  • - 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, and only on certain conditions.
  • - For the EiffelBase library.
  • - By Regents of the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Scriptics Corp., others.
  • - Perl package license.
  • - From Brazil, programming language framework.
  • - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
  • - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
  • - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
  • - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
  • - Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
  • - Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
  • - Programming language free for personal or commercial use.
  • - For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
  • - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
  • - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.



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