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  2. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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    The OSI recommends a mix of permissive and copyleft licenses, the Apache License 2.0, 2- & 3-clause BSD license, GPL, LGPL, MIT license, MPL 2.0, CDDL and EPL. License and version FSF approval

  3. 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.

  4. Permissive software license - Wikipedia

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    A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, [1] is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.

  5. Copyleft - Wikipedia

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    The concrete effect of strong vs. weak copyleft has yet to be tested in court. [26] Free-software licenses that use "weak" copyleft include the GNU Lesser General Public License and the Mozilla Public License. The GNU General Public License is an example of a license implementing strong copyleft.

  6. Software license - Wikipedia

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    Permissive licenses can be used within copyleft works, but copyleft material cannot be released under a permissive license. Some weak copyleft licenses can be used under the GPL and are said to be GPL-compatible. GPL software can only be used under the GPL or AGPL. [62]

  7. Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - Wikipedia

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    It is unique among the OSI's licenses because of the choices it allows in its construction. It lets the licensor pick anywhere from 0-2 warranty disclaimers, whether they want to prohibit the author's name from being used in publicity or advertising surrounding a distribution (like in the BSD License), and other spelling and grammar options.

  8. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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    The Copyleft sticker from an envelope Don Hopkins mailed to Richard Stallman in 1984. Copyleft licenses require source code to be distributed with software and require the source code to be made available under a similar license. [34] [60] Like the permissive licenses, most copyleft licenses require attribution. [61]

  9. Free-software license - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license

    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 .