Different type of Open source license

OSI approved licenses

Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities (9)

• Apache Software License 2.0


• New and Simplified BSD Licenses.


• GNU General Public License (GPL)


• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)


• MIT License


• Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1


• Common Development and Distribution License


• Common Public License 1.0


• Eclipse Public License

Special purpose licenses

• Educational Community License


• NASA Open Source Agreement


• Open Group Test Suite License

Other/Miscellaneous licenses

• Adaptive Public License (APL)


• Artistic License


• Open Software License


• Q Public License (QPL)


• zlib-libpng license

Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses

• Academic Free License


• Attribution Assurance Licenses


• Eiffel Forum License 2


• Fair License


• Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer


• Lucent Public License 1.02


• Open Sourced License ^[3]


• University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License


• X.Net License

Non-reusable licenses (25)

• Apple Public Source License


• Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License


• CUA Office Public License


• Entessa Public License


• EU DataGrid Software License


• Frameworx License


• IBM Public License


• Motosoto License


• Naumen Public License


• NetHack General Public License


• Nokia Open Source License


• OCLC Research Public License 2.0


• PHP License


• Python License (CNRI Python License)


• Python Software Foundation License


• RealNetworks Public Source License


• Reciprocal Public License


• Ricoh Source Code Public License


• Sleepycat License


• Sun Public License (SPL)


• Sybase Open Watcom Public License


• Vovida Software License v. 1.0


• W3C License


• wxWindows Library License


• Zope Public License

Superseded licenses (5)

• Apache Software License 1.1


• Artistic License 1.0


• Eiffel Forum License 1


• Lucent Public License Plan9


• Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.0

Licenses that have been voluntarily retired

• MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License)


• Intel Open Source License


• Jabber Open Source License


• Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)

Not categorized

• Affero General Public License


• Boost Software License (BSL1.0)


• Common Public Attribution License


• GNU General Public License 3.0


• GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)


• ISC License


• Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)


• Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)


• MirOS License


• Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0


• NTP License


• Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (RPL1.5)


• Simple Public License 2.0

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