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2. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [ 1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [ 2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free ...

3. Free license - Wikipedia

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   Free license. A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed. These uses are normally prohibited by copyright, patent or other Intellectual property (IP) laws. The term broadly covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses .

4. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   In the mid-1980s, the GNU project produced copyleft free-software licenses for each of its software packages. An early such license (the "GNU Emacs Copying Permission Notice") was used for GNU Emacs in 1985, which was revised into the "GNU Emacs General Public License" in late 1985, and clarified in March 1987 and February 1988.

5. List of free-content licences - Wikipedia

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   Creative Commons licenses which are considered free: Creative Commons Attribution, or CC BY. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, or CC BY-SA. Creative Commons Zero, or CC0 [1] Creative Archive Licence, discontinued licence of the BBC Archive. Design Science License. Free Art License. Korean Open Access License. MirOS Licence.

6. Software license - Wikipedia

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   Software license. Diagram of software under various licenses according to the FSF and their The Free Software Definition: on the left side "free software", on the right side "proprietary software". On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" ( Freeware ). A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or ...

7. Academic Free License - Wikipedia

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   The Academic Free License ( AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apache licenses – licenses allowing the software to be made proprietary – but was written to correct ...

8. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...

9. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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   The Version 2 of the GNU General Public License [14] of 1991 also says that patents convert free software to proprietary software: " Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program ...