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List of FSF approved software licences
The following is a list of software licences which Free Software Foundation (FSF) has approved as complying with their Free Software Definition. They are thus, according to FSF, free software licences.

Name Versions Is copyleft? GPL compatible? Used by Notes
Academic Free License | 1.1, 2.1 | | | |
Affero General Public License | 1 | | | | Version 3 of the AGPL is compatible with the GPL version 3.
GNU Affero General Public License | 3 | | - GPLv3 | | Compatible with GPL version 3 only.
Apache License | 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 | | - GPLv3 | Apache | Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the Apache License are not GPL compatible
Apple Public Source License | 2 | | | Apple's Darwin operating system |
Arphic Public License | | | | |
Artistic License | 2.0 | | |Perl |According to the FSF only version 2 of the Artistic License is compatible with the GPL
Berkeley Database License | | | | Berkeley DB | Also known as the Sleepycat Software Product License.
Boost Software License | | | | |
CeCILL | 2 | | | | GPL compatible since version 2
Clarified Artistic License | | | | |
Common Development and Distribution License | | | | Sun's OpenSolaris |
Common Public License | 1.0 | | | |
Cryptix General License | | | | |
EU DataGrid Software License | | | | |
Eclipse Public License | 1.0 | | | |
eCos license | 2.0 | | | | GPL compatible since Version 2
Eiffel Forum License | 2 | | | | GPL compatible since Version 2
Expat License | | | |Expat |Also known as the MIT License
GNU General Public License | 1, 2, 3 | | | GNU, Linux kernel, MySQL |
GNU Lesser General Public License | 2, 2.1, 3 | | | glibc and many other libraries, themes and icons |
IBM Public License | 1.0 | | | |
Intel Open Source License (OSI) | | | | | As published by OSI.
Interbase Public License | 1.0 | | | |
Jabber Open Source License | 1.0 | | | |This license has been voluntarily retired from OSI.
LaTeX Project Public License | 1.2, 1.3a | | | LaTeX |
GNAT Modified General Public License | | | | GNAT runtime toolkit |
License of Netscape Javascript | | | | |
Vim | 6.1 and later | | | Vim |
zlib license | | | | zlib | Also known as the libpng license.
License of the iMatix Standard Function Library | | | | |
License of xinetd | | | | xinetd |
Lucent Public License | 1.02 | | | Plan 9 | Also known as the Plan 9 License.
MIT License | | | | X.org |Also known as the X11 License.
Modified BSD license | | | | FreeBSD and OpenBSD |
Mozilla Public License (MPL) | | | | Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox |
Netizen Open Source License | 1.0 | | | |
Netscape Public License | | | | |
Nokia Open Source License | | | | |
Open Software License | 1.0 | ? | | |
OpenLDAP License | 2.3, 2.7 | | | OpenLDAP | GPL compatible since version 2.7
OpenSSL license | | | | OpenSSL |
Original BSD license | | | | NetBSD |
PHP License | 3.0 | | | PHP |
Phorum License | 2.0 | | | |
Public Domain | - | | | - |Public Domain isn't truly a license, per se. The definition of what is in the public domain varies from country to country, as is whether or not the author of a work can place his/her work voluntarily in the public domain. If a work is in the public domain, no-one owns the copyright to the work, and/or (usually) anyone can use, copy, modify, redistribute, or otherwise exploit the work for any purpose.
Python Software Foundation License | 1.6a2, 1.6b1 - 2.0/2.1, 2.0.1/2.1.1 | | | Python | This license replaces the original Python License which was not GPL compatible
Q Public License | 1.0 | | | Qt | It was used until Qt 3.0, as Trolltech toolkit version 4.0 was released under GPL version 2.
Standard ML of New Jersey Copyright License | | | | |
Sun Industry Standards Source License | 1.0 | | | |Sun has voluntarily retired this license.
Sun Public License | | | | |This license seems now to have been "dropped" by Sun in favor of the new CDDL license, which is also derived from the MPL.
Condor Public License | | | | |
Ruby License | | | | Ruby |
Vita Nuova Liberal Source License | | | | |
W3C Software Notice and License | | | | libwww |
X11 License | | | | X.org |This is the FSF's preferred name for the MIT License.
WTFPL | 2 | | | |
XFree86 1.1 License | 1.1 | | | XFree86 |The XFree86 Project contests GPL incompatibility.
Zend License | 2.0 | | | Parts of PHP |
Zope Public License | 1, 2.0 | | | Zope | GPL compatible since version 2.0

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