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- 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 - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
eCos License Overview - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
PHP Licence Information - Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources.
Open Source Initiative - Licenses - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
E Licenses - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
License information for Xinu software - License for the XINU operating system
LaTeX Project Public License - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
Amoeba copyright notice - A free software OS.
BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - License for 4.4BSD.
Python License - A very permissive, open source compliant and GPL compatible license used by the team developing the Python programming language.
Christian Software Public License (CSPL) - Christianized variant of BSD license.
Lua Copyright notice - From Brazil, programming language framework.
Against DRM 2.0 - A free copyleft license for artworks, which forbids DRM. Includes licence text, FAQ, and a few translations.
Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
Ruby License - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing - Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent. [PDF]
Quick Reference Guide - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
Amulet License Agreement - CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - License for FreeBSD operating system.
GNU General Public License (GPL) - One standard for licensing free software.
Freshmeat - Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
The Artistic License - Perl package license.
W3C IPR Software Notice - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
GNU: List of Licenses - Various licenses and comments about them.
RTEMS License Information - RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
Affero - General Public License - Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
Zope Public License (ZPL) - Patterned after Apache license.
Liberal Source Software (LSS) - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
Squeak License - License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple.
Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
Bixoft Public License - A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
SFL License Agreement - Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
Debian Social Contract - 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 b
Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and FAQs.
x-kernel Copyright Notice - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
Mozart License Agreement - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
Creative Commons - 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.
Mozilla Public License Version 1.0 - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
IBM - Common Public License (CPL) - Open source software license.
Apache Server Licenses - Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.
Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) - Apple's license for software released as source code.
GNU Free Documentation License - A version of the GPL for reference material.
MySQL Licensing - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - For the EiffelBase library.

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