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| This page divides the licenses that have been reviewed by the Launchpad staff into open and proprietary groups. Licenses that comply with [[Legal/ProjectLicensing]] are considered to be open, and the projects that use them are free to use Launchpad. Licenses that do not comply are considered to be proprietary. Projects with proprietary licenses can purchase a commercial subscription or change to an open license. | This page divides the licenses that have been reviewed by the Launchpad staff into open and proprietary groups. Licenses that comply with [[Legal#Project_eligibility]] are considered to be open, and the projects that use them are free to use Launchpad. Licenses that do not comply are considered to be proprietary. Projects with proprietary licenses can purchase a commercial subscription or change to an open license. |
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| '''OSI-approved / FSF-approved''' <<BR>> Licenses already approved as free-software / open-source licenses by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative are automatically open enough for Launchpad. Any license on one list is usually on the other. If a project wants to use a license approved by one organization but not the other, we'll consider it on a case-by-case basis (but it's incredibly rare that that would come up). '''Boost''' <<BR>> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt '''CeCILL, CeCILL-B, and CeCILL-C''' <<BR>> http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html <<BR>> http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-B_V1-en.html <<BR>> http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.html '''CPAL -- Common Public Attribution License'''<<BR>> https://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?cpal_osd_compliance '''Creative Commons Attribution'''<<BR>> http://creativecommons.org/ '''Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike'''<<BR>> http://creativecommons.org/ '''NOSA -- NASA Open Source Agreement'''<<BR>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/nasa1.3.php '''QPL -- The Q Public License Version 1.0'''<<BR>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/qtpl.php '''W3C - W3C (R) Software License'''<<BR>> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 '''Unicode, Inc. License'''<<BR>> http://unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 '''zlib/libpng License'''<<BR>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php |
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| '''Creative Commons Noncommercial licenses (by-nc, by-nc-nd, by-nc-sa)''' <<BR>> The noncommercial restriction makes these proprietary, |
'''Creative Commons Noncommercial licenses''' (by-nc, by-nc-nd, by-nc-sa) <<BR>> http://creativecommons.org/ <<BR>> The noncommercial restrictions discriminate against a field of use (commercial edeavors). '''Creative Commons No-Derivatives licenses''' (by-nd, by-nc-nd) <<BR>> http://creativecommons.org/ <<BR>> The no-derivatives restrictions mean that users are not free to release modified versions. |
Licenses
This page divides the licenses that have been reviewed by the Launchpad staff into open and proprietary groups. Licenses that comply with Legal#Project_eligibility are considered to be open, and the projects that use them are free to use Launchpad. Licenses that do not comply are considered to be proprietary. Projects with proprietary licenses can purchase a commercial subscription or change to an open license.
Open
OSI-approved / FSF-approved
Licenses already approved as free-software / open-source licenses by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative are automatically open enough for Launchpad. Any license on one list is usually on the other. If a project wants to use a license approved by one organization but not the other, we'll consider it on a case-by-case basis (but it's incredibly rare that that would come up).
Boost
http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
CeCILL, CeCILL-B, and CeCILL-C
http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html
http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-B_V1-en.html
http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.html
CPAL -- Common Public Attribution License
https://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?cpal_osd_compliance
Creative Commons Attribution
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
http://creativecommons.org/
NOSA -- NASA Open Source Agreement
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/nasa1.3.php
QPL -- The Q Public License Version 1.0
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/qtpl.php
W3C - W3C (R) Software License
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
Unicode, Inc. License
http://unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1
zlib/libpng License
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php
Proprietary
Creative Commons Noncommercial licenses (by-nc, by-nc-nd, by-nc-sa)
http://creativecommons.org/
The noncommercial restrictions discriminate against a field of use (commercial edeavors).
Creative Commons No-Derivatives licenses (by-nd, by-nc-nd)
http://creativecommons.org/
The no-derivatives restrictions mean that users are not free to release modified versions.
