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	Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/ A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
	GNU General Public License (GPL) - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html One standard for licensing free software.
	GNU Free Documentation License - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html A version of the GPL for reference material.
	W3C IPR Software Notice - http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
	GNU: List of Licenses - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html Various licenses and comments about them.

	Apache Server Licenses - http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.
	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
	OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
	Open Source Initiative - Licenses - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
	PHP Licence Information - http://www.php.net/license/ Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources.

	Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and FAQs.
	Debian Social Contract - http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Initially designed as a set of commitments that the Debian developers agreed to abide by, it has later been adopted by the free software community as the basis of the Open Source Definition. The Open Directory Project's social contract was also inspired by it.
	BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html License for FreeBSD operating system.
	Zope Public License (ZPL) - http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/ Patterned after Apache license.
	SFL License Agreement - http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/sfl4.htm Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.

	Ruby License - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
	Squeak License - http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple.
	Affero - General Public License - http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
	Python License - http://www.python.org/psf/license/ A very permissive, open source compliant and GPL compatible license used by the team developing the Python programming language.
	IBM - Common Public License (CPL) - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/ Open source software license.

	The Artistic License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php Perl package license.
	LaTeX Project Public License - http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/ Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
	MySQL Licensing - http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/ Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
	BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html License for 4.4BSD.
	Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.

	BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
	Mozilla Public License Version 1.0 - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.0.html Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
	BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
	Lua Copyright notice - http://www.lua.org/copyright.html From Brazil, programming language framework.
	eCos License Overview - http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.

	Mozart License Agreement - http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
	Open Group Public License - http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
	Amoeba copyright notice - http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT A free software OS.
	Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
	E Licenses - http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.

	RTEMS License Information - http://www.rtems.com/license/index.html RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
	Open Source Software Licensing Page - http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history, forms, and problems, seen from a commercial view. Links to some license texts and important open source sites.
	Christian Software Public License (CSPL) - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/cspl.html Christianized variant of BSD license.
	Quick Reference Guide - http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/ A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
	Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - http://archive.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html For the EiffelBase library.

	Lucent Technologies, Inc. - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
	Amulet License Agreement - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211 CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
	License information for Xinu software - http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html License for the XINU operating system
	Against DRM 2.0 - http://www.freecreations.org/ A free copyleft license for artworks, which forbids DRM. Includes licence text, FAQ, and a few translations.
	x-kernel Copyright Notice - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/xkernel/copyright.html Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.

	Bixoft Public License - http://www.bixoft.nl/english/license.htm A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
	Liberal Source Software (LSS) - http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/liblicence.txt Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
	Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13 Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
	Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) - http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl/ Apple's license for software released as source code.

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