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2. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   This table lists for each license what organizations from the FOSS community have approved it – be it as a "free software" or as an "open source" license – , how those organizations categorize it, and the license compatibility between them for a combined or mixed derivative work. Organizations usually approve specific versions of software ...

3. Software license - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of software under various licenses according to the FSF and their The Free Software Definition: on the left side "free software", on the right side "proprietary software". On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" . A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.

4. Contributor License Agreement - Wikipedia

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   KDE uses Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary Licence Agreement [50] of which (FLA-1.2) states in section 3.3: FSFE shall only exercise the granted rights and licences in accordance with the principles of Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundations.

5. End-user license agreement - Wikipedia

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   An end-user license agreement or EULA (/ ˈ j uː l ə /) is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user. The practice of selling licenses to rather than copies of software predates the recognition of software copyright , which has been recognized since the 1970s in the United States.

6. Wikipedia : Software licenses

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   As described in the article Software license, such licenses either allow or restrict certain actions with regard to the software. Examples of such licenses include: A GNU license – Free software licenses which usually also incorporate copyleft to ensure any copied code remains free as in freedom. A common GNU license is the GNU General Public ...

7. License-free software - Wikipedia

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   Examples of license-free software formerly included programs written by Daniel J. Bernstein, such as qmail, djbdns, daemontools, and ucspi-tcp. Bernstein held the copyright and distributed these works without license until 2007. [1] From December 28, 2007, onwards, he started placing his software in the public domain with an explicit waiver ...

8. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   Instead of imposing restrictions, free software explicitly provided freedoms to the recipient. [14] Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition. In the 90s, the term "open source" was coined as an alternative label for free software, and specific criteria were laid out to determine which licenses covered free and open-source software.

9. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   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 .