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This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]
Pages in category "Software using the GPL license" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 435 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL, or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedoms to run, study, share, and/or modify the software. [7]
While the creation of new licenses slowed down later, license proliferation and its impact are considered an ongoing serious challenge for the free and open-source ecosystem. From the free-software licenses, the GNU GPL version 2 has been tested in to court, first in Germany in 2004 and later in the US. In the German case the judge did not ...
Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development. Intellectual property (IP) laws restrict the modification and sharing of creative works. Free and open-source licenses use these existing legal structures for an inverse purpose.
This is a list of proprietary source-available software, which has available source code, but is not classified as free software or open-source software. In some cases, this type of software is originally sold and released without the source code , and the source code becomes available later.
The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative both publish lists of licenses that they find to comply with their own definitions of free software and open-source software respectively: List of FSF approved software licenses; List of OSI approved software licenses
GPL-2.0-or-later: Free Download Manager: 2003 2007 GPL-3.0-only: Free since version 2.5 [48] FoundationDB: 2013 2018 Apache-2.0: Apple Inc. acquired the founding company in March 2015 and discontinued downloads of the software. [49] In April 2018, Apple open-sourced the database and resumed downloads. [50] Game-Maker: 1991 2014 MIT