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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. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. BSD licenses - Wikipedia

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   The BSD license family is one of the oldest and most broadly used license families in the free and open-source software ecosystem, and has been the inspiration for a number of other licenses. Many FOSS software projects use a BSD license, for instance the BSD OS family (FreeBSD etc.), Google's Bionic or Toybox.

9. Copyleft - Wikipedia

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   Copyleft is a distinguishing feature of some free software licenses, while other free-software licenses are not copyleft licenses because they do not require the licensee to distribute derivative works under the same license. There is an ongoing debate as to which class of license provides the greater degree of freedom.