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<h1>Featured</h1>
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<a href="mit">MIT</a>
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A permissive license that is short and to the point. It lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty. <a href="mit">View full license »</a>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<a href="apache">Apache</a>
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A permissive license that also grants a license to patent claims from contributors
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that are necessarily infringed by the software. <a href="apache">View full license »</a>
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<td class='label'>Required</td>
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<li class="include-copyright">Copyright inclusion</li>
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<li class="include-license">License inclusion</li>
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<li class="document-changes">State Changes</li>
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<td class='label'>Permitted</td>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="warranty">Warranty</li>
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<li class="no-warranty">Liability</li>
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<li class="trademark-use">Use Trademark</li>
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<a href="gpl-v2">GPL v2</a>/<a href="gpl-v3">v3</a>
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GPL is the most widely used free software license and is fully reciprocal. Derived
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works must be distributed under the same license.
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<a href="gpl-v2">View full license »</a>
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<li class="include-copyright">Copyright inclusion</li>
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<li class="document-changes">State changes</li>
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<li class="disclose-source">Disclose Source</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="warranty">Warranty</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<li class="no-sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<h1>Other licenses</h1>
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Some communities tend to have specific licenses preferred by the
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community. For example, PERL developers often choose the artistic license.
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<a href="artistic">Artistic</a>
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A license that’s heavily favored by the PERL community.
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<a href="artistic">View full license »</a>
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<li class="include-copyright">Copyright inclusion</li>
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<li class="document-changes">State changes</li>
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<li class="disclose-source">Disclose source</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="private-use">Private Use</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<li class="trademark-use">Use Trademark</li>
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<a href="bsd">BSD</a>
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A permissive license that comes in two variants, the <a href="bsd">BSD 2-Clause</a> and <a href="bsd-3-clause">BSD 3-Clause</a>. Both have very minute differences to the MIT license.
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<a href="bsd">View full license »</a>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="warranty">Warranty</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<li class="trademark-use">Use Trademark (3-clause)</li>
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<a href="eclipse">Eclipse</a>
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Used by the Eclipse foundation for its software, this license includes reciprocal requirements in
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some cases. <a href="eclipse">View full license »</a>
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<li class="disclose-source">Disclose source</li>
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<li class="include-license">License inclusion</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<td class='label'>Forbidden</td>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<li class="trademark-use">Use Trademark</li>
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<a href="mozilla">Mozilla</a>
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The Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0) is maintained by the Mozilla foundation. This license attempts to be a compromise between the permissive BSD license and the reciprocal GPL license.
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<a href="mozilla">View full license »</a>
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<li class="disclose-source">Disclose source</li>
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<li class="include-copyright">Copyright inclusion</li>
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<li class="include-license">License inclusion</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="warranty">Warranty</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<li class="trademark-use">Use Trademark</li>
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<a href="lgpl-v2.1">LGPL v2.1</a>
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Primarily used for software libraries, LGPL requires that derived works be licensed under the same license, but
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works that only link to it do not fall under this restriction.
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<a href="lgpl-v2.1">View full license »</a>
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<li class="nonstatic-linkage">Nonstatic linkage</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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<a href="lgpl-v3">LGPL v3</a>
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Version 3 of the LGPL is an additional set of permissions to the <a href="gpl-v3">GPL v3 license</a>
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that requires that derived works be licensed under the same license, but works that only link to
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it do not fall under this restriction.
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<a href="lgpl-v3">View full license »</a>
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<li class="include-copyright">Copyright inclusion</li>
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<li class="nonstatic-linkage">Nonstatic linkage</li>
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<li class="commercial-use">Commercial use</li>
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<li class="modifications">Modification</li>
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<li class="distribution">Distribution</li>
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<li class="sublicense">Sublicensing</li>
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<li class="no-liability">Liability</li>
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