Appendix C. Free Software License List
Free Software Licenses
These licenses have been certified as Free Software Licenses by the Free Software Foundation. For discussion of these licenses, see “Various Licenses and Comments about Them,” at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.
The GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses
| GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 |
| GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 |
| GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 |
| GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 |
| GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3 |
| Apache License, version 2.0 |
| Artistic License 2.0 |
| Clarified Artistic License |
| Berkeley Database License (a.k.a. the Sleepycat Software Product License) |
| Boost Software License |
| Modified BSD license |
| CeCILL version 2 |
| Cryptix General License |
| eCos license version 2.0 |
| Eiffel Forum License, version 2 |
| EU DataGrid Software License |
| Expat License |
| FreeBSD license |
| License of the iMatix Standard Function Library |
| Intel Open Source License |
| Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) |
| NCSA/University of Illinois Open Source License |
| License of Netscape Javascript |
| OpenLDAP License, Version 2.7 |
| License of Perl 5 and below |
| Public Domain |
| License of Python 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and newer versions |
| License of Python 1.6a2 and earlier versions |
| License of Ruby |
| Standard ML of New Jersey Copyright License |
| License of Vim, version 6.1 or later |
| W3C Software Notice and License |
| X11 License |
| XFree86 1.1 License |
| License of Zlib |
| Zope Public License, versions 2.0 and 2.1 |
GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses
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