Publications

GNU: List of Licenses
Various licenses and comments about them.
www.gnu.org/

kuro5hin.org: Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful
"One particular licensing option...is a growing problem for the free content community. It is the allow non-commercial use only (-NC) option. The 'non-commercial use only' variants of the Creative Commons licenses are non-free, and in some ways worse than traditional copyright law -- because it can be harder to move away from them once people have made the choice."
www.kuro5hin.org/

E Licenses
Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
www.erights.org/

EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses
Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
www.eff.org/

License information for Xinu software
License for the XINU operating system
www.cs.purdue.edu/

Affero - General Public License
Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
www.affero.org/

LaTeX Project Public License
Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
www.latex-project.org/

Apple/Disney: Squeak license
Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
squeak.org/

eCos License Overview
Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
sources.redhat.com/

Bixoft Public License
A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
www.bixoft.nl/