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• Affero - General Public License

  http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
  Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.

• Against DRM 2.0

  http://www.freecreations.org/
  A free copyleft license for artworks, which forbids DRM. Includes licence text, FAQ, and a few translations.

• Amoeba copyright notice

  http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT
  A free software OS.

• Amulet License Agreement

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
  CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.

• Apache Server Licenses

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/
  Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.

• Bixoft Public License

  http://www.bixoft.nl/english/license.htm
  A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.

• BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright

  http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html
  License for 4.4BSD.

• BSD: FreeBSD Copyright

  http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
  License for FreeBSD operating system.

• BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution

  http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html
  License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.

• BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy

  http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
  License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.

• Debian Social Contract

  http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
  Initially designed as a set of commitments that the Debian developers agreed to abide by, it has later been adopted by the free software community as the basis of the Open Source Definition. The Open Directory Project's social contract was also inspired by it.

• E Licenses

  http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
  Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.

• eCos License Overview

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html
  Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.

• GNU General Public License (GPL)

  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  One standard for licensing free software.

• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
  Formerly: GNU Library GPL.

• GNU: List of Licenses

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
  Various licenses and comments about them.

• IBM - Common Public License (CPL)

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
  Open source software license.

• LaTeX Project Public License

  http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/
  Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.

• License information for Xinu software

  http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html
  License for the XINU operating system

• Lua Copyright notice

  http://www.lua.org/copyright.html
  From Brazil, programming language framework.

• Mozilla Public License

  http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
  Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, and provides the full text of the license, and FAQs.

• Mozilla Public License Version 1.0

  http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/1.0/
  Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.

• MySQL Licensing

  http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/
  Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.

• Open Group Public License

  http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
  Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.

• Open Source Initiative - Licenses

  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
  Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.

• Open Source Software Licensing Page

  http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
  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.

• OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition

  http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
  Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.

• PHP Licence Information

  http://www.php.net/license/
  Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources.

• Python License

  http://docs.python.org/license.html
  A very permissive, open source compliant and GPL compatible license used by the team developing the Python programming language.

• Quick Reference Guide

  http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/
  A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.

• Ruby License

  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/license.txt
  Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.

• The Artistic License

  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
  Perl package license.

• Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

  http://oreilly.com/openbook/osfreesoft/book/
  Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.

• Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License

  http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
  Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.

• W3C IPR Software Notice

  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
  W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.

• x-kernel Copyright Notice

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/xkernel/copyright.html
  Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.

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