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The following table compares various features of each license and is a general guide to the terms and conditions of each license, based on seven subjects or categories. Recent tools like the European Commissions' Joinup Licensing Assistant, [ 10 ] makes possible the licenses selection and comparison based on more than 40 subjects or categories ...
No Yes No proprietary license On 16 August 2017, the source code of the game engine was made freely available under proprietary license terms via GitHub. [3] [4] Apple DOS: Apple Inc. 1986 2015 No No No non-commercial license The Apple DOS source code was released by the Computer History Museum [5] after Paul Laughton, the creator of the code ...
This is a version of the Microsoft Public License in which rights are only granted to developers of Microsoft Windows-based software. [17] This license is not open source, as defined by the OSI, because the restriction limiting use of the software to Windows violates the stipulation that open-source licenses must be technology-neutral. [18]
The Unlicense software license, published around 2010, offers a public-domain waiver text with a fall-back public-domain-like license, inspired by permissive licenses but without an attribution clause. [12] [13] In 2015 GitHub reported that approximately 102,000 of their 5.1 million licensed projects, or 2%, use the Unlicense. [note 3]
The term "MIT License" has also been used to refer to the Expat License (used for the XML parsing library Expat) and to the X11 License (also called "MIT/X Consortium License"; used for X Window System by the MIT X Consortium). [3] Furthermore, the "MIT License" as published by the Open Source Initiative is the same as the Expat License. [14]
The Open Source Initiative defines a permissive software license as a "non-copyleft license that guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute". [6] GitHub's choosealicense website describes the permissive MIT license as "[letting] people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."
Custom proprietary "non-commercial use only" license. [15] MongoDB: 2009 2018 AGPL-3.0-only: Server Side Public License [16] [17] Nexuiz: 2005 2012 GPL-2.0-or-later: Game abandoned in favour of a commercial video game of the same name, which licensed the Nexuiz title but is not based on its engine. Xonotic [18] OctoberCMS: 2014 2021 MIT
Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP2 were supported up to version 5.22, after which their support was dropped. [28] [29] In September 2019, Sandboxie version 5.31.4 was released under a freeware license "with plans to transition it to an open source tool". The previous commercial license still applied to customers with active licenses until ...