Appendix D. Fedora License List and GPL Compatibility
Licenses Approved for Use with Fedora
Table D-1 shows the licenses that are approved for use with the Fedora project.[9] This is for software only; documentation and other content have different licenses. For the current list, see the licensing page on the Fedora wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing.
Full name | Short name | FSF free? | GPLv2 compat? | GPLv3 compat? |
3dfxGlide License | Glide | Yes | NO | NO |
Academic Free License | AFL | Yes | NO | |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences BSD | AMPAS BSD | Yes | NO | NO |
Adobe Systems Incorporated Source Code License Agreement | Adobe | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Affero General Public License 1.0 | AGPLv1 | Yes | NO | |
Affero General Public License 3.0 | AGPLv3 | Yes | NO | Yes—special exception |
Amazon Digital Services License | ADSL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apache Software License 1.0 | ASL 1.0 | Yes | NO | NO |
Apache Software License 1.1 | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO |
Apache Software License 2.0 | ASL 2.0 | Yes | NO | Yes |
Apple Public Source License 2.0 | APSL 2.0 | Yes | NO | |
Artistic (clarified) | Artistic clarified | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Artistic 2.0 | Artistic 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Aspell-ru License | ARL | Yes | NO | NO |
BitTorrent License | BitTorrent | Yes | NO | NO |
Boost Software License | Boost | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BSD License (original) | BSD with advertising | Yes | NO | NO |
BSD License (no advertising) | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BSD License (two clause) | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CeCILL License v2 | CeCILL | Yes | Yes | |
CMU License (BSD like) | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Common Development Distribution License | CDDL | Yes | NO | |
Common Public License | CPL | Yes | NO | |
Condor Public License | Condor | Yes | NO | |
Copyright Attribution Only | Copyright only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CPAL License ... |
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