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There is a various groups sort and publish approved lists of FOSS “Free and Open Source Software” licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free.
 
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This is a list of Licenses that are popular, widely, or with strong communities as listed by OSI:
 
This is a list of Licenses that are popular, widely, or with strong communities as listed by OSI:
[[Apache_License_2|Apache License, 2.0 (Apache-2.0)]]
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[[BSD_3-Clause_License|BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license (BSD-3-Clause)]]
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* [[BSD_3-Clause_License|BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license (BSD-3-Clause)]]
[[BSD_2-Clause_License|BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license (BSD-2-Clause)]]
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* [[BSD_2-Clause_License|BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license (BSD-2-Clause)]]
[[GPLv3-license|GNU General Public License 3.0 (GPL)]]
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* [[GPLv3-license|GNU General Public License 3.0 (GPL)]]
[[GPLv2-license|GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL)]]
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* [[GPLv2-license|GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL)]]
[[GNU_LESSER_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE_v3|GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)]]
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* [[GNU_LESSER_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE_v3|GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)]]
[[MIT_license|MIT license (MIT)]]
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* [[MIT_license|MIT license (MIT)]]
[[Mozilla_Public_License_v2|Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)]]
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* [[Mozilla_Public_License_v2|Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)]]
[[Common_Development_and_Distribution_License|Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0)]]
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* [[Common_Development_and_Distribution_License|Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0)]]
[[Eclipse_Public_License|Eclipse Public License (EPL-1.0)]]
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* [[Eclipse_Public_License|Eclipse Public License (EPL-1.0)]]

Latest revision as of 10:55, 4 July 2016

There is a various groups sort and publish approved lists of FOSS “Free and Open Source Software” licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free.

FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. "Free software" and "open source software" are two terms for the same thing: software released under licenses that guarantee a certain, specific set of freedoms.

The FSF's Free Software definition focuses on the user's unrestricted rights to use a program, to study and modify it, to copy it, and redistribute it for any purpose, which are considered by the FSF the four essential freedoms.

The OSI's open-source criteria focuses on the availability of the source code and the advantages of an unrestricted and community driven development model.

This is a list of Licenses that are popular, widely, or with strong communities as listed by OSI: