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The SPDX License List contains extra BSD license variations. Examples include: [1] BSD-1-Clause, a license with only the source code retaining clause, used by Berkeley Software Design in the 1990s, [23] [24] and later used by the Boost Software License. OSI approved since 2020. [25] BSD-2-Clause-Patent, a variation of BSD-2-Clause with a patent ...
This table lists for each license what organizations from the FOSS community have approved it – be it as a "free software" or as an "open source" license – , how those organizations categorize it, and the license compatibility between them for a combined or mixed derivative work. Organizations usually approve specific versions of software ...
Cougaar Open Source License (COSL) is a modified version of the OSI approved BSD License Unknown Unknown Unknown 2012 [4] JACK: A framework in Java for multi-agent system development Proprietary Unknown FIPA JACK Unknown Unknown May 18, 2006 [5] JADE: Distributed applications composed of autonomous entities
There are occasional edge cases where only one of the FSF or the OSI accept a license, but the popular free software licenses are open source, including the GPL. [72] Mitchell Baker drafted the Mozilla Public License while on Netscape's legal team. [73] Practical benefits to copyleft licenses have attracted commercial developers.
Although the OSI has made an effort to have a transparent process, the approval process has been a source of controversy. [16] Seven approved licenses are particularly recommended by the OSI as "popular, widely used, or having strong communities": [16] Apache License 2.0; BSD 3-Clause and BSD 2-Clause Licenses; All versions of the GPL
The Open Source Initiative defines a permissive software license as a "non-copyleft license that guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute". [6] GitHub's choosealicense website describes the permissive MIT license as "[letting] people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."
The BSD Zero Clause License [15] removes half a sentence from the ISC license, leaving only an unconditional grant of rights and a warranty disclaimer. [16] It is listed by the Software Package Data Exchange as the Zero Clause BSD license, with the SPDX identifier 0BSD. [17] It was first used by Rob Landley in Toybox and is OSI-approved.
The Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). [1] Its primary use is for distribution of the Python project software and its documentation. [3] Since the license is permissive, it allows proprietization of the derivations.