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.
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.
RTEMS License Information - http://www.rtems.com/license/index.html RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
Apache Server Licenses - http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.
Squeak License - http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple.
Debian Social Contract - http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html License for Debian GNU/Linux.
Lua Copyright notice - http://www.lua.org/copyright.html From Brazil, programming language framework.
BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html License for FreeBSD operating system.
BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html License for 4.4BSD.
Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and FAQs.
Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13 Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
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.
Open Group Public License - http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
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.
The Artistic License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php Perl package license.
BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
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.
Lucent Technologies, Inc. - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/ 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.
Ruby License - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
Mozart License Agreement - http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
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.
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.
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.
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