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Open-source licenses allow other businesses to commercialize covered software. [109] Work released under a permissive license can be incorporated into proprietary software. [110]
More than 90 percent of companies use open-source software as a component of their proprietary software. [70] The decision to use open-source software, or even engage with open-source projects to improve existing open-source software, is typically a pragmatic business decision.
The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL, or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedoms to run, study, share, or modify the software. [7]
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements.
These examples of modern PD software (after the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988) are either under proper public domain (e.g. created by a US governmental organization), under a proper public domain like license (for instance CC0), or accompanied by a clear waiver statement from the author.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components.
In 2000, the "Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License" was released as a public-domain-equivalent license for software. [2]It is distinguished among software licenses by its informal style and lack of a warranty disclaimer.
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the Affero General Public License (non-GNU).