Appendix H: List of Open source Licenses
Isaac Mulolani
There are a number of different types of open licenses that can be used. The first set are the open source licenses that arose out of the open source movement in the 1990s. These are sometimes called Free and Open Source Software licenses[1]. The second set are most commonly used in the open education community – Creative Commons licenses. These were described in Chapter 1. In this appendix, a listing of some of the open source licenses in use is provided.
| License | Author | Latest version | Publication date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Free License | Lawrence E. Rosen | 3.0 | 2002 |
| Apache License | Apache Software Foundation | 2.0 | 2004 |
| CeCILL | CEA / CNRS / INRIA | 2.1 | June 21, 2013 |
| Eclipse Public License | Eclipse Foundation | 2.0 | August 24, 2017 |
| European Union Public License | European Commission | 1.2 | May 2017 |
| FreeBSD | The FreeBSD Project | April 1999 | |
| GNU General Public License | Free Software Foundation | 3.0 | June 2007 |
| GNU Lesser General Public License | Free Software Foundation | 3.0 | June 2007 |
| IBM Public License | IBM | 1.0 | 1999 |
| Microsoft Public License | Microsoft | N/A | |
| MIT License/X11 License | MIT | N/A | 1988 |
| Open Software License | Lawrence Rosen | 3.0 | 2005 |
| OpenSSL License | OpenSSL Project | N/A | |
| PHP License | PHP Group | 3.01 | 2019 |
| Python Software Foundation License | Python Software Foundation | 3.9.1 | 2020-10-05 |
| Unlicense | unlicense.org | 1 | December 2010 |
| W3C Software Notice and License | W3C | 20021231 | December 31, 2002 |
| BSD License | Regents of the University of California | 3.0 | |
| Common Public License | IBM | 1.0 | May 2001 |
| Educational Community License | Indiana University | 1.0 | 2007 |
| LaTeX Project Public License | LaTeX Project | 1.3c | January 3, 2012 |
| Mozilla Public License | Mozilla Foundation | 2.0 | |
| Sun Public License | Sun Microsystems |
Table H 1.1 List of some open source licenses
