The Open Software License (OSL) is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license...
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groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project. For a list of licenses not specifically intended...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...
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A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...
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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...
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covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses. The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the...
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a license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in...
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BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
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