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  2. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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    The Free Software Foundation prefers copyleft (share-alike) free-software licensing rather than permissive free-software licensing for most purposes. Its list distinguishes between free-software licenses that are compatible or incompatible with the FSF's copyleft GNU General Public License .

  3. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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    [3] [4] The OSI does not endorse FSF license analysis (interpretation) as per their disclaimer. [5] The FSF's Free Software Definition focuses on the user's unrestricted rights to use a program, to study and modify it, to copy it, and to redistribute it for any purpose, which are considered by the FSF the four essential freedoms.

  4. List of FSF approved software licenses - Wikipedia

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    Personal tools. Donate; ... Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; List of FSF approved software licenses ... Comparison of free and open ...

  5. Free Software Directory - Wikipedia

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    The Free Software Directory (FSD) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It catalogs free software that runs under free operating systems—particularly GNU and Linux. The cataloged projects are often able to run in several other operating systems. The project was formerly co-run by UNESCO. Unlike some other directories that focus ...

  6. Free Software Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman [6] on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, [7] such as with its own GNU General Public License. [8]

  7. Free software - Wikipedia

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    The FSF list is not prescriptive: free-software licenses can exist that the FSF has not heard about, or considered important enough to write about. So it is possible for a license to be free and not in the FSF list. The OSI list only lists licenses that have been submitted, considered and approved.

  8. GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes this approach has made it possible for important programs to become free software". Although the FSF does not practice selling exceptions, a comparison with the X11 license (which is a non-copyleft free software license) is proposed for suggesting that this commercialization technique should be regarded as ethically acceptable.

  9. GNU All-permissive License - Wikipedia

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    The GNU All-permissive License is a lax, permissive (non-copyleft) free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License, recommended by the Free Software Foundation for README and other small supporting files (under 300 lines long).