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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.

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.

Amoeba copyright notice - http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/COPYRIGHT
A free software OS.

Amulet License Agreement - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/amulet3/manual/overview.html#1002211
CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.

Apache Server Licenses - http://www.apache.org/licenses/
Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.

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.

BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html
License for 4.4BSD.

BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
License for FreeBSD operating system.

BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html
License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.

BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.

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.

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.

E Licenses - http://www.erights.org/download/licenses.html
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.

eCos License Overview - http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.

Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - http://archive.eiffel.com/products/base/license.html
For the EiffelBase library.

Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/browse/13/?topic_id=13
Listings of browseable licenses and articles.

GNU Free Documentation License - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
A version of the GPL for reference material.

GNU General Public License (GPL) - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
One standard for licensing free software.

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
Formerly: GNU Library GPL.

GNU: List of Licenses - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Various licenses and comments about them.

IBM - Common Public License (CPL) - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/
Open source software license.

LaTeX Project Public License - http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/
Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.

License information for Xinu software - http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xlicense.html
License for the XINU operating system

Lua Copyright notice - http://www.lua.org/copyright.html
From Brazil, programming language framework.

Lucent Technologies, Inc. - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html
Plan 9 Open Source license agreement

Mozart License Agreement - http://www.mozart-oz.org/LICENSE.html
Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.

Mozilla Public License - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, and provides the full text of the license, and FAQs.

Mozilla Public License Version 1.0 - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.0.html
Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.

MySQL Licensing - http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/
Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.

Open Group Public License - http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.

Open Source Initiative - Licenses - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quick Reference Guide - http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/
A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.

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.

Ruby License - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.

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.

Squeak License - http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/
License for the Squeak software suite, mainly provided by Apple.

The Artistic License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
Perl package license.

Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/
Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.

Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html
Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.

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.

x-kernel Copyright Notice - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/xkernel/copyright.html
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.

Zope Public License (ZPL) - http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/
Patterned after Apache license.

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