Licences

From OpenSourceGov

What makes a piece of software open source is the licence it is published under. Open source or free software licences generally take a rather enlightened view of copyright. Below is a list of different licences, click on them to find out more.

• Affero General Public License (AGPL)
• Apache Software License 2.0
• new BSD License
• Common Development and Distribution License
• Common Public License 1.0
• Eclipse Public License
• GNU General Public License (GPL)
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
• ISC license
• MIT License
• Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1