Open source licenses used by software development projects must meet these criteria to be
accepted as open source software by OSI. More than 40 different licenses are accepted by OSI to be
used to label software as ???OSI Certified Open Source Software.??? In addition to the GPL, other popular
OSI-approved licenses include:
LGPL??”The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a license that is often used for
distributing libraries that other application programs depend upon.
BSD??”The Berkeley Software Distribution License allows redistribution of source code,
with the requirement that the source code keep the BSD copyright notice and not use the
names of contributors to endorse or promote derived software without written permission.
MIT??”The MIT license is like the BSD license, except that it doesn??™t include the endorsement
and promotion requirement.
Mozilla??”The Mozilla license covers use and redistribution of source code associated
with the Mozilla Web browser and related software. It is a much longer license than the
others just mentioned because it contains more definitions of how contributors and those
reusing the source code should behave. This includes submitting a file of changes when
submitting modifications and that those making their own additions to the code for redistribution
should be aware of patent issues or other restrictions associated with their code.
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