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Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities (9)
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- Apache License, 2.0
- New BSD license
- GNU General Public License (GPL version 2)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL version 2)
- MIT license
- Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
- Common Development and Distribution License
- Common Public License
- Eclipse Public License
Special purpose licenses (3)
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- Educational Community License (special purpose: only suitable for educational establishments)
- NASA (special purpose: for use by an agency of the United Stated federal government, which has special concerns regarding some issues such as copyright protection, copyright notices, disclaimer of warranty and indemnification, and choice of law)
- Open Group Test Suite (special purpose: only suitable for tests or test suites)
Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses (9)
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- Academic Free License (redundant with Apache 2.0)
- Attribution Assurance Licenses (redundant with BSD)
- CUA Office Public License (redundant with MPL 1.1)
- Eiffel Forum License V2.0 (redundant with BSD)
- Fair License (redundant with BSD)
- Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer (redundant with BSD)
- Lucent Public License Version 1.02 (redundant with CPL)
- University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (redundant with BSD)
- X.Net License (redundant with MIT)
Non-reusable licenses (24)
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- Apple Public Source License
- Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1
- EU DataGrid Software License
- Entessa Public License
- Frameworx License
- IBM Public License
- Motosoto License
- Naumen Public License
- Nethack General Public License
- Nokia Open Source License
- OCLC Research Public License 2.0
- PHP License
- Python license (CNRI Python License)
- Python Software Foundation License
- RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0
- Reciprocal Public License
- Ricoh Source Code Public License
- Sleepycat License
- Sun Public License
- Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0
- Vovida Software License v. 1.0
- W3C License
- wxWindows Library License
- Zope Public License
Other/Miscellaneous licenses (5)
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- Adaptive Public License
- Artistic License
- Open Software License
- Qt Public License
- zlib/libpng license
Superseded licenses (4)
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- Apache Software License v1.1
- Eiffel 1.0
- Lucent 1.0
- MPL 1.0
Licenses that have been voluntarily retired (4)
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- Intel Open Source License
- Jabber Open Source License
- MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License
- Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)
Here are our criteria for placing licenses in the various groups:
Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities
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We used statistics obtained from public sources to determine which licenses are widely used. We believed that there were a few licenses that, while not the most popular, were widely used within their communities and that these also belonged in this group.
Special purpose licenses
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Certain licensors, such as schools and the US government, have specialized concerns, such as specialized rules for government copyrights. Licenses that were identified as meeting a special need were placed in this group.
Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses
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Several licenses in this group are excellent licenses and have their own followings. The committee struggled with this group, but ultimately decided that if we were to attack the license proliferation problem, we had to prune licenses. Thus, licenses that were perceived as completely or partially redundant with existing licenses were placed in this group.
Non-reusable licenses
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Licenses in this group are specific to their authors and cannot be reused by others. Many, but not all, of these licenses fall into the category of vanity licenses.
Superseded licenses
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Licenses in this category have been superseded by newer versions.
Licenses that have been voluntarily retired
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Self-defining category. No one should use these licenses going forward, although we assume that licensors may or may not choose to continue to use them.
Other/Miscellaneous licenses
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These licenses do not fall neatly into any category.
