Appendix B. Open Source License List
Open Source Licenses
The following licenses[8] have been certified as Open Source by the Open Source Initiative. The license categories are from the Open Source Initiative’s License Proliferation Committee report.
For a list of current licenses, see the following sites:
| http://opensource.org/licenses/category |
| http:// opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical |
Licenses That Are Popular and Widely Used or with Strong Communities
We used statistics obtained from public sources to determine which licenses are widely used. We believed that there were a few licenses that, while not the most popular, were widely used within their communities and that these also belonged in this group.
| Apache License, 2.0 |
| New and Simplified BSD licenses |
| GNU General Public License (GPL)(version 2) |
| GNU Library or “Lesser” General Public License (LGPL) (version 2) |
| MIT license |
| Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) |
| Common Development and Distribution License |
| Common Public License 1.0 |
| Eclipse Public License |
Special Purpose Licenses
Certain licensors, such as schools and the U.S. government, have specialized concerns, such as specialized rules for government copyrights. Licenses that were identified as meeting a special need were placed in this group.
| Educational Community License |
| NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 |
| Open Group Test Suite License |
Other/Miscellaneous Licenses
| Adaptive Public License |
| Artistic License 2.0 |
| Open Software License |
| Qt Public License (QPL) |
| zlib/libpng License |
Licenses That Are Redundant with ...
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