A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...
33 KB (3,563 words) - 20:39, 8 October 2024
A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These...
56 KB (6,399 words) - 10:30, 19 September 2024
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
24 KB (2,535 words) - 07:17, 30 September 2024
MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...
26 KB (2,723 words) - 20:43, 14 October 2024
This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following...
39 KB (1,916 words) - 09:11, 24 July 2024
Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
44 KB (5,214 words) - 19:14, 5 August 2024
The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose...
11 KB (1,217 words) - 08:20, 24 September 2024
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
29 KB (3,234 words) - 15:41, 15 August 2024
The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users...
132 KB (15,461 words) - 07:50, 17 October 2024
to use said software, with attribution, in derived commercial products). In the broad sense, any FOSS license is a source-available license. In the narrow...
18 KB (1,754 words) - 10:07, 25 September 2024