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Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW).CUA Office Public License Version 1.0 (CUA-OPL-1.0).No one should use these licenses going forward, although we assume that licensors may or may not choose to continue to use them. Licenses that have been voluntarily retired Reciprocal Public License, version 1.1 (RPL-1.1).Lucent Public License (“Plan9”), version 1.0 (LPL-1.0).Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (ECL-1.0).

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Apache Software License 1.1 (Apache-1.1).Licenses in this category have been superseded by newer versions. Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 (Watcom-1.0).

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Ricoh Source Code Public License (RSCPL).

RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0 (RPSL-1.0).

CNRI Python license (CNRI-Python) (CNRI portion of Python License).

OCLC Research Public License 2.0 (OCLC-2.0).

LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c (LPPL-1.3c).

EU DataGrid Software License (EUDatagrid).

Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1 (CATOSL-1.1).

Many, but not all, of these licenses fall into the category of vanity licenses. Licenses in this group are specific to their authors and cannot be reused by others.

University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (NCSA).

OpenLDAP Public License Version 2.8 (OLDAP-2.8).

Lucent Public License Version 1.02 (LPL-1.02).

Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer (HPND).

Several licenses in this group are excellent licenses and have their own followings, however these licenses were perceived by the License Proliferation Committee as completely or partially redundant with existing licenses. Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses These licenses do not fall neatly into any category.

Upstream Compatibility License v1.0 (UCL-1.0).

Unicode License Agreement – Data Files and Software.

OSET Public License version 2.1 (OSET-PL-2.1).NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 (NASA-1.3).Lawrence Berkeley National Labs BSD Variant License (BSD-3-Clause-LBNL).Licenses that were identified by the License Proliferation Committee as meeting a special need were placed in this group.Įducational Community License, Version 2.0 (ECL-2.0) Mulan Permissive Software License v2 (MulanPSL – 2.0)Ĭertain licensors, such as schools and the US government, have specialized concerns, such as specialized rules for government copyrights.Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité forte (LiLiQ-R+) version 1.1 (LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1).Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité (LiLiQ-R) version 1.1 (LiLiQ-R-1.1).Licence Libre du Québec – Permissive (LiLiQ-P) version 1.1 (LiLiQ-P-1.1).European Union Public License (EUPL-1.2).Common Development and Distribution License 1.0 (CDDL-1.0).GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).The below list is based on publicly available statistics obtained at the time of the Report of License Proliferation Committee. Licenses that are “popular and widely-used or with strong communities” There is no non-version-specific SPDX short identifier for the GPL and LGPL.

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For these, the parenthesized expressions (“GPL” and “LGPL” respectively) are the common non-version-specific names of these licenses today (note also that the full name of the first version (2.0) of the LGPL is the GNU Library General Public License). In the lists below, a parenthesized expression following a license name is its SPDX short identifier, if one exists, except for two items in the first list (GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License).

Origins and definitions of categories from the License Proliferation Committee report.