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List of FSF approved software licences
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The following is a list of software licences which Free Software Foundation has approved as complying with their Free Software Definition.
| Name | Versions | Is copyleft? | GPL compatible? | Used by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Free License | 1.1, 2.1 | No | No | ||
| Affero General Public License | Yes | No | |||
| Apache License | 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 | No | No | Apache | |
| Apple Public Source License | 2 | Yes | No | Apple's Darwin operating system | |
| Arphic Public License | |||||
| Artistic License | 2.0 | ||||
| Berkeley Database License | Yes | Berkeley DB | Also know as the Sleepycat Software Product License. | ||
| Boost Software License | No | Yes | |||
| CeCILL | 2 | ||||
| Clarified Artistic License | Yes | ||||
| Common Development and Distribution License | Yes | Yes | Sun's OpenSolaris | possible switch to GPL3 | |
| Common Public License | 1.0 | ||||
| Cryptix General License | |||||
| EU DataGrid Software License | |||||
| Eclipse Public License | 1.0 | ||||
| eCos license | 2.0 | ||||
| Eiffel Forum License | 2 | ||||
| Expat License | |||||
| GNU General Public License | 2 (v3 will come 2007) | Yes | Yes | GNU, Linux kernel, MySQL | the most used license |
| GNU Lesser General Public License | 2.1 | Yes | Yes | glibc and a lot of other libraries, themes and icons | |
| IBM Public License | 1.0 | ||||
| Intel Open Source License | As published by OSI. | ||||
| Interbase Public License | 1.0 | ||||
| Jabber Open Source License | 1.0 | ||||
| LaTeX Project Public License | 1.2, 1.3a | LaTeX | |||
| GNAT Modified General Public License | GNAT runtime toolkit | ||||
| License of Guile | Guile | ||||
| License of Netscape Javascript | |||||
| License of Vim | 6.1 and later | Vim | |||
| zlib license | zlib | Also known the libpng license. | |||
| License of the iMatix Standard Function Library | |||||
| License of xinetd | xinetd | ||||
| Lucent Public License Version | 1.02 | Plan 9 | Also known as the Plan 9 License. | ||
| MIT License | w3m | ||||
| Modified BSD license | FreeBSD and OpenBSD | ||||
| Mozilla Public License | Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox | ||||
| Netizen Open Source License | 1.0 | ||||
| Netscape Public License | |||||
| Nokia Open Source License | |||||
| Old OpenLDAP License | 2.3 | ||||
| Open Software License | 1.0 | ||||
| OpenLDAP License | 2.7 | OpenLDAP | |||
| OpenSSL license | OpenSSL | ||||
| Original BSD license | NetBSD | ||||
| PHP License | 3.0 | PHP | |||
| Phorum License | 2.0 | ||||
| Public Domain | |||||
| Python Software Foundation License | Python | ||||
| Q Public License | 1.0 | Qt | |||
| Standard ML of New Jersey Copyright License | |||||
| Sun Industry Standards Source License | 1.0 | ||||
| Sun Public License | |||||
| The Condor Public License | |||||
| Ruby's license | Ruby | ||||
| Vita Nuova Liberal Source License | |||||
| W3C Software Notice and License | libwww | ||||
| X11 License (the MIT License) | X.org | ||||
| XFree86 1.1 License | XFree86 | ||||
| Zend License | 2.0 | ||||
| Zope Public License | 1, 2.0 | Zope |
