A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

Initially designed as a set of commitments that the Debian developers agreed to abide by, it has later been adopted by the free software community as the basis of the Open Source Definition. The Open Directory Project's social contract was also inspir...

Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.

Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.

For the EiffelBase library.

Listings of browseable licenses and articles.

A version of the GPL for reference material.

One standard for licensing free software.

Formerly: GNU Library GPL.

Various licenses and comments about them.