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2. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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   Free software projects cannot agree to patent licences that include any kind of per-copy fee. No matter how low the fee is, there is no way for a free software distributor to know how many copies are being made. Also, adding any requirements to pay or to notify someone each time a copy is made would make the software no longer free software. [12]

3. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software". There is no one universally agreed-upon definition of FOSS software and various groups maintain approved lists of licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it ...

4. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   Instead of imposing restrictions, free software explicitly provided freedoms to the recipient. [14] Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition. In the 90s, the term "open source" was coined as an alternative label for free software, and specific criteria were laid out to determine which licenses covered free and open-source software.

5. BSD licenses - Wikipedia

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   The BSD license family is one of the oldest and most broadly used license families in the free and open-source software ecosystem, and has been the inspiration for a number of other licenses. Many FOSS software projects use a BSD license, for instance the BSD OS family (FreeBSD etc.), Google's Bionic or Toybox.

6. Software license - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of software under various licenses according to the FSF and their The Free Software Definition: on the left side "free software", on the right side "proprietary software". On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" . A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.

7. Contributor License Agreement - Wikipedia

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   KDE uses Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary Licence Agreement [50] of which (FLA-1.2) states in section 3.3: FSFE shall only exercise the granted rights and licences in accordance with the principles of Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundations.

8. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   The Free Software Foundation prefers copyleft (share-alike) free-software licensing rather than permissive free-software licensing for most purposes. Its list distinguishes between free-software licenses that are compatible or incompatible with the FSF's copyleft GNU General Public License.

9. Free software - Wikipedia

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   Free software, libre software, libreware [1] [2] ... Such an agreement is made separately from the free software license.