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2. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   Network usage is not considered private use [28] Copylefted [27] Yes [28] GNU General Public License: Free Software Foundation: 3.0: June 2007: GPLv3 compatible only [29] [30] Copylefted [27] Copylefted [27] Yes [31] Yes [31] Copylefted [27] Yes [31] GNU Lesser General Public License: Free Software Foundation: 3.0: June 2007: With restrictions ...

3. GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

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   The version numbers diverged in 1999 when version 2.1 of the LGPL was released, which renamed it the GNU Lesser General Public License to reflect its place in the philosophy. The GPLv2 was also modified to refer to the new name of the LGPL, but its version number remained the same, resulting in the original GPLv2 not being recognised by the ...

4. GNU Lesser General Public License - Wikipedia

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   The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components.

5. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   The GPL remains the most popular license of this type, but there are other significant examples. The FSF has crafted the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for libraries. Mozilla uses the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for their releases, including Firefox. IBM drafted the Common Public License (CPL) and later adopted the Eclipse Public License ...

6. License compatibility - Wikipedia

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   License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.

7. BSD licenses - Wikipedia

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   BSD-1-Clause, a license with only the source code retaining clause, used by Berkeley Software Design in the 1990s, [23] [24] and later used by the Boost Software License. OSI approved since 2020. [25] BSD-2-Clause-Patent, a variation of BSD-2-Clause with a patent grant. OSI approved since 2017. [26]

8. Mozilla Public License - Wikipedia

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   It is explicitly granted that MPL-covered code may be distributed under the terms of the license version under which it was received or any later version. [1]: 10.2 If code under version 1.0 or 1.1 is upgraded to version 2.0 by this mechanism, the 1.x-covered code must be marked with the aforementioned GPL-incompatible notice. The MPL can be ...

9. Open Software License - Wikipedia

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   opensource.org /licenses /OSL-3.0 The Open Software License ( OSL ) [ 2 ] is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen . The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license , but the Debian project judged version 1.1 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] to be incompatible with the DFSG .