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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses.
English: This chart shows the most popular open-source licenses in 2021 according to mend.io. In order of most to least popular they are the Apache License, the MIT License, the GNU General Public Licenses, the BSD licenses, the GNU Lesser General Public License, and the Mozilla Public License.
Popular open source licenses include the Apache License, the MIT License, the GNU General Public License (GPL), the BSD Licenses, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source ...
License Kernel type Kernel programming language Kernel thread support OS family Oldest non-EOL version [Note 1] Forks; Linux: GPL version 2 only: Monolithic with modules C: 1:1 Unix-like: 4.4 elks: FreeBSD: BSD; GPL, LGPL software usually included Monolithic with modules C 1:1 BSD, Unix-like 11 DragonFly BSD OpenBSD: BSD Monolithic C 1:1 BSD ...
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.
Compatibility chart for some open-source software licenses. Since 1989, [43] a variety of open-source licenses for software have been created. [53] Choosing an open-source software license has grown increasingly difficult due to the proliferation of licenses, [54] [55] many of which are only trivially distinct. [56]
The group Open Source Initiative (OSI) defines and maintains a list of approved open-source licenses. OSI agrees with FSF on all widely used free-software licenses, but differ from FSF's list, as it approves against the Open Source Definition rather than the Free Software Definition. It considers Free Software Permissive license group to be a ...
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]