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 What are all the different license types?
 Patrick Lenz in General - Mon, Nov 10th 2003 03:08

Adaptive Public License (APL)
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apl1.0.php

Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Public.htm

Apple Public Source License (APSL)
http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/

Artistic License
http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.html

BSD License
http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html

Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
http://www.sun.com/cddl/

Common Public License
http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl.html

Copyback License
http://copyback.czv.com/copyback/

Eclipse Public License
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

Educational Community License
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php

Eiffel Forum License (EFL)
http://opensource.org/licenses/eiffel.html

Free For Educational Use
This software may be used free-of-charge by members of educational institutions, but must be purchased by all others.

Free for non-commercial use
This software must be purchased if it is to be used in commercial endeavors, but may be used free-of-charge for other purposes.

Free To Use But Restricted
This software may be used free-of-charge, but is restricted in some way (often in comparison to a commercial version of the same software). Please see the author(s) for details.

Freely Distributable
This software may be distributed freely, but restrictions have been placed on your right to modify it, etc. Please see the author(s) for details.

Freeware
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/freeware.html

GNAT Modified GPL (GMGPL)
http://gnade.sourceforge.net/#download

GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

GNU General Public License (GPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

IBM Public License
http://opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.html

MIT/X Consortium License
http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
This family includes any license where the only significant condition for a wide range of uses is retention of the copyright and license notices.

MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW)
http://opensource.org/licenses/mitrepl.html

Mozilla Public License (MPL)
http://opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.0.html

Netscape Public License (NPL)
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.0.html

Nokia Open Source License (NOKOS)
http://opensource.org/licenses/nokia.html

Open Software License
http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-2.1.php

OSI Approved
http://opensource.org/licenses/

Other/Proprietary License
This is not Free or Open Source software. Please see the author(s) for details about its license.

Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
This is not Free or Open Source software. It must be purchased, but a trial version of it is available free-of-charge. Please see the author(s) for details about its license.

Other/Proprietary License with Source
This is not Free or Open Source software, but its source is made available when it is purchased. Please see the author(s) for details about its license and what you are permitted to do with its source code.

Public Domain
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?public+domain

Python License
http://opensource.org/licenses/pythonpl.html

QT Public License (QPL)
http://opensource.org/licenses/qtpl.html

Ricoh Source Code Public License
http://opensource.org/licenses/ricohpl.html

Shareware
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/shareware.html

SUN Binary Code License
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/bcl.html

SUN Community Source License
http://wwws.sun.com/software/communitysource/

The Apache License
http://opensource.org/licenses/apachepl.html

The Apache License 2.0
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

The CeCILL License
http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V1.1-US.html

The Clarified Artistic License
http://www.statistica.unimib.it/utenti/dellavedova/software/artistic2.html

The Latex Project Public License (LPPL)
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html

The Open Content License
http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The PHP License
http://www.php.net/license/

Voxel Public License (VPL)
http://www.voxel.net/VPL.txt

W3C License
http://opensource.org/licenses/W3C.html

WTFPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

zlib/libpng License
http://opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.html

Zope Public License (ZPL)
http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL

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