FOSS Licenses

The World of Free and OpenSource Licences is roughly divided between copyleft & permissive types.

NGO Analysing FOSS-Licenses

  • OSI - Open Source Initiative
  • FSF - Free Software Foundation

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Articels

Top FOSS-Licenses

Source-Code

GPL-3 - GNU General Public License v3

LPGL-3 - GNU Lesser General Public License v3

AGPL-3 - GNU Affero General Public License v3

BSD (tbd)

  • [tldrlegal], [osadl]

Apache-2 - Apache License 2.0

MIT (Expat)

SSPL - Server Side Public License

Not realy OSS by MongoDB, ElasticSearch. So called Anti-Cloud License.

Content

Content-Licenses for e.g. Text, Images, Music, Video, 2D/3D/4D Arts, …

Creative Commons Rights

  • 0 - Public Domain
  • BY - Attribution
  • SA - Share Alike (copyleft)
  • NC - Non Commercial
  • ND - No Derivative or Remix

Creative Commons common Types

Images

From Permissive to Copyleft

Spreading of License, listed by Prototypefund

Conten-Licenses

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