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Started in Feb 2, 2011 by jdd (notice to be removed when the editing is near the end, not an authorship claim). Notice this article is highly controversial and must not be taken into account as long as this paragraph is included!
After the end of the discussion period, this page have to be closed (edit only by admins)
largely inspired from the Fedora project one.
This pages is to list and discuss what application, documentation or other object can be accepted in the openSUSE project, relative to it's licence, and in what part of the project (OSS repositiory, non-OSS or Build Service or other) it can be classified.
This do not take in account any technical point of view not directly related to the licence. We have to say if the licence XX is compatible with openSUSE, compatible with inclusion in openSUSE version of application YY and so on. We don't have to discuss is there are too many bugs in it.
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Basics
We try to comply with the OSI licence work.
A large part of this page goal is already detailed here openSUSE:Build_Service_application_blacklist
One of the reasons this page was created is to list the licence openSUSE think are best if ever you want to choose one. We can also try to explain why.
Discussing free licences is hard. In short, too much freedom could allow stealing your work and making it impossible for you to use the derivative work, too less freedom makes it impossible to spread or reuse your code. We don't plan to discuss all this here (it's not the place on our wiki), but to give practical guidelines.
Most used licences and systems
No licence
It's apealing not to write any licence for a text or a small script. If you don't either give your name as an author, this may be possible, but if you give your name this makes it impossible to reuse the work without your express autorisation. Never let your name as an author and no licence!
The wiki pages are under the GFDL.
The FSF
The Free Software Foundation advocate a free software definition pretty restricted as can be seen from the list or free linux distribution seen by the FSF.
However they advocate for at least two widely used licences, the GPL and the GFDL.
Of course we accept as perfectly free and usable these two licences.
The Creative Common initiative
The Creative Common initiative list a number of licences. This number and the fact than not all are free makes it difficult to know which is what. This also depends of the kind of work that is licenced.
We wont discuss all these licences as the discussion is easily found elsewhere. The free variants are mostly the CC BY and the CC BY SA.
Other systems
Apache, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org use special licences but are accepted in openSUSE distribution.
Other references
http://www.osscc.net/en/licenses.html#compatibility
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence
http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing
Multiple licence
If code is multiple licensed, and at least one of the licenses is approved for openSUSE, that code can be included in openSUSE under the approved license(s) (but only under the terms of the approved license(s)).
known dependency problems
Place holder to list the case where there may be licence problem not adressed before, specially the cross use of licences, the use of several licences for the same work and so on, always in a practical, openSUSE, point of view...
Licences list
License Changes
A license change in a package is a very serious event - it has as many, if not more, implications for related packages as ABI changes do.
Therefore, if your package changes license, even if it just changes the license version, it is required that you announce it on factory list.
Note that any license change to a more restrictive license or license version may affect the legality of portions of openSUSE as a whole; ergo, openSUSE reserves the right to block upgrades of packages to versions with new licenses to ensure the legal distribution of openSUSE.
Software License List
These lists are not intended to be all inclusive, there are surely other licenses out there which are not categorized here. However, if a license of relevance to you is not listed here, please email the details to the factory mailing list.
Licences used in various packages
Here are links to various pages givings statistics from the actual packages (exactly from the rpm licence tag in the packages):
http://www.vorkon.de/vkd/vkd-vorkon-yipi/OS_license_types.html
text mode, sorted by name:
http://www.vorkon.de/vkd/vkd-vorkon-yipi/OS_RPM_licenses.txt
Other
http://license.opensuse.org/?w=1
The discussion thread on factory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-02/msg00090.html
Good Licenses
Here is a list of Software Licenses that are OK for openSUSE. Notice than the "FSF, GPLv2 and GPLv3 compatibility is written only as reference and as published by the FSF as far as we know, not an openSUSE claim.
FIXME: The short names below are in the old SUSE syntax. For submission to Factory you need to convert the names using https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AqPp4y2wyQsbdGQ1V3pRRDg5NEpGVWpubzdRZ0tjUWc
| Full Name | Short Name | FSF Free? | GPLv2 Compat? | GPLv3 Compat? | Upstream URL | |
| 3dfx Glide License | Glide | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.users.on.net/~triforce/glidexp/COPYING.txt | |
| 4Suite Copyright License | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://4suite.org/COPYRIGHT | |
| Abstyles License | Abstyles | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Abstyles | |
| Academic Free License | AFL | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/afl-3.0.php | |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences BSD | AMPAS BSD | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#AMPASBSD | |
| Adobe Systems Incorporated Source Code License Agreement | Adobe | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/AdobeLicense | |
| Adobe Glyph List License | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#AdobeGlyph | |
| Affero General Public License 1.0 | AGPLv1 | Yes | NO | http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html | ||
| Affero General Public License 3.0 | AGPLv3 | Yes | NO | Sortof | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html | |
| Affero General Public License 3.0 with Zarafa trademark exceptions | AGPLv3 with exceptions | Yes | NO | Sortof | http://www.zarafa.com/content/affero-gplv3 | |
| Amazon Digital Services License | ADSL | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/AmazonDigitalServicesLicense | |
| AMD's plpa_map.c License | AMDPLPA | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/AMD_plpa_map_License | |
| Apache Software License 1.0 | ASL 1.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-1.0 | |
| Apache Software License 1.1 | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-1.1 | |
| Apache Software License 2.0 | ASL 2.0 | Yes | NO | Yes | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| Apple MIT License | AML | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Apple_MIT_License | |
| Apple Public Source License 2.0 | APSL 2.0 | Yes | NO | http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/2.0.txt | ||
| Artistic (clarified) | Artistic clarified | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ArtisticClarified | |
| Artistic 2.0 | Artistic 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0 | |
| Aspell-ru License | ARL | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/AspellRu | |
| Attribution Assurance License | AAL | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/attribution.php | |
| Barr License | Barr | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Barr | |
| Beerware License | Copyright only | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Beerware | |
| BeOpen Open Source License Agreement Version 1 | BeOpen | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BeOpen | |
| BitTorrent License | BitTorrent | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BitTorrent_Open_Source_License | |
| Boost Software License | Boost | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt | |
| Borceux license | Borceux | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Borceux | |
| BSD License (original) | BSD with advertising | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#BSDwithAdvertising | |
| BSD License (no advertising) | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#3ClauseBSD | |
| BSD License (two clause) | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD | |
| BSD Protection License | BSD Protection | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD_Protection_License | |
| Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1 | CATOSL | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/ca-tosl1.1.php | |
| CeCILL License v1.1 | CeCILL | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V1.1-US.html | |
| CeCILL License v2 | CeCILL | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html | |
| CeCILL-B License | CeCILL-B | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html | |
| CeCILL-C License | CeCILL-C | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html | |
| Celtx Public License (CePL) | Netscape | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.celtx.com/CePL/ | |
| CMU License (BSD like) | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT | |
| CNRI License (Old Python) | CNRI | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.handle.net/python_licenses/python1.6_9-5-00.html | |
| Common Development Distribution License | CDDL | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/cddllicense.txt | |
| Common Public License | CPL | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html | |
| Condor Public License | Condor | Yes | NO | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/condor-public-license.html | ||
| Copyright Attribution Only | Copyright only | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly | |
| CPAL License 1.0 | CPAL | Yes | NO | NO | https://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?cpal_license_in_wikitext | |
| Creative Commons BSD | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/ | |
| Creative Commons GNU GPL | GPLv2+ | Yes | N/A | See Matrix | http://creativecommons.org/choose/cc-gpl | |
| Creative Commons GNU LGPL | LGPLv2+ | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://creativecommons.org/choose/cc-lgpl | |
| Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal | CC0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode | |
| Crossword License | Crossword | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Crossword | |
| Cryptix General License | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.cryptix.org/LICENSE.TXT | |
| Crystal Stacker License | Crystal Stacker | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CrystalStacker | |
| CUA Office Public License Version 1.0 | MPLv1.1 | Yes | Compatible if dual licensed with GPL, otherwise Incompatible | http://opensource.org/licenses/cuaoffice.php | ||
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | WTFPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/WTFPL | |
| DOC License | DOC | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html | |
| Dotseqn License | Dotseqn | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Dotseqn | |
| dvipdfm License | dvipdfm | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/dvipdfm | |
| Eclipse Distribution License 1.0 | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php | |
| Eclipse Public License 1.0 | EPL | Yes | NO | http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html | ||
| eCos License v2.0 | eCos | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ecos-license.html | |
| Educational Community License 1.0 | ECL 1.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php | |
| Educational Community License 2.0 | ECL 2.0 | Yes | NO | Yes | http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0/ | |
| Eiffel Forum License 2.0 | EFL 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/eiffel-forum-license-2.html | |
| enna License | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#enna | |
| Enlightenment License (e16) | MIT with advertising | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT_With_Advertising | |
| Entessa Public License | Entessa | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/entessa.php | |
| Erlang Public License 1.1 | ERPL | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ErlangPublicLicense | |
| EU Datagrid Software License | EU Datagrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/eudatagrid.php | |
| European Union Public License 1.1 | EUPL 1.1 | Yes | Yes | NO | http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eupl | |
| Eurosym License | Eurosym | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eurosym | |
| Fedora Directory Server License | GPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/GPL_Exception_License_Text | |
| Fair License | Fair | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensource.org/licenses/fair.php | |
| feh License | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#feh | |
| FLTK License | LGPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.fltk.org/COPYING.php | |
| FreeImage Public License | MPLv1.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/freeimage-license.txt | |
| Freetype License | FTL | Yes | NO | Yes | http://freetype.fis.uniroma2.it/FTL.TXT | |
| Giftware License | Giftware | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/license.html | |
| GL2PS License | GL2PS | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/COPYING.GL2PS | |
| GNU General Public License (no version) | GPL+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version that it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying docs is technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not just the version in whatever COPYING file they include. | |
| GNU General Public License (no version), with Classpath exception | GPL+ with exceptions | Yes | Yes | Yes | A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version that it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying docs is technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not just the version in whatever COPYING file they include. And if they manage to grant the Classpath exception without specifying a version, you get this strange beast. | |
| GNU General Public License (no version), with font embedding exception | GPL+ with exceptions | Yes | Yes | Yes | A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version that it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying docs is technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not just the version in whatever COPYING file they include. And if they manage to grant the font embedding exception without specifying a version, you get this strange beast. | |
| GNU General Public License v1.0 only | GPLv1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt | |
| GNU General Public License v1.0 or later | GPL+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Note that this is not GPLv1+, because 1+ is the same as any version. | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only | GPLv2 | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only, with Classpath exception | GPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | Yes, if exception is used. | Yes, if exception is used. | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GPL_Classpath_Exception | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only, with font embedding exception | GPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 or later | GPLv2+ | Yes | N/A | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, with Classpath exception | GPLv2+ with exceptions | Yes | Yes, if exception is used. | Yes, if exception is used. | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GPL_Classpath_Exception | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, with font embedding exception | GPLv2+ with exceptions | Yes | N/A | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GPLv3 | Yes | See Matrix | N/A | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only, with Classpath exception | GPLv3 with exceptions | Yes | Yes, if exception is used. | N/A | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GPL_Classpath_Exception | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only, with font embedding exception | GPLv3 with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | N/A | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GPLv3+ | Yes | See Matrix | N/A | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, with Classpath exception | GPLv3+ with exceptions | Yes | Yes, if exception is used. | N/A | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GPL_Classpath_Exception | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, with font embedding exception | GPLv3+ with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | N/A | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License (no version) | LGPLv2+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version that it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying docs is technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not just the version in whatever COPYING file they include. Note that this is LGPLv2+, not LGPL+, because version 2 was the first version of LGPL. Note that this license was originally referred to as the GNU Library General Public License v2, but all current versions (v2.1 or newer) of the license are correctly known as the GNU Lesser General Public License. | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v2 (or 2.1) only | LGPLv2 | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html Note that this license was originally referred to as the GNU Library General Public License v2, but all current versions (v2.1 or newer) of the license are correctly known as the GNU Lesser General Public License. | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v2 (or 2.1), with exceptions | LGPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | Please be sure that any exceptions are approved by emailing them to legal@lists.fedoraproject.org first. | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v2 (or 2.1) or later | LGPLv2+ | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v2 (or 2.1) or later, with exceptions | LGPLv2+ with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | Please be sure that any exceptions are approved by emailing them to legal@lists.fedoraproject.org first. | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | LGPLv3 | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, with exceptions | LGPLv3 with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | Please be sure that any exceptions are approved by emailing them to legal@lists.fedoraproject.org first. | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later | LGPLv3+ | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, with exceptions | LGPLv3+ with exceptions | Yes | See Matrix | See Matrix | Please be sure that any exceptions are approved by emailing them to legal@lists.fedoraproject.org first. | |
| gnuplot License | gnuplot | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Gnuplot | |
| Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensource.org/licenses/historical.php | |
| IBM Public License | IBM | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.php | |
| iMatix Standard Function Library Agreement | iMatix | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://legacy.imatix.com/html/sfl/sfl4.htm#license | |
| ImageMagick License | ImageMagick | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php | |
| Imlib2 License | Imlib2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Imlib2 | |
| Independent JPEG Group License | IJG | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/IJG | |
| Intel ACPI Software License Agreement | Intel ACPI | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Intel_ACPI_Software_License_Agreement | |
| Interbase Public License | Interbase | Yes | NO | http://www.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/IPL.html | ||
| ISC License (Bind, DHCP Server) | ISC | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://www.isc.org/software/license | |
| Jabber Open Source License | Jabber | Yes | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/jabberpl.php | ||
| JasPer License | JasPer | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/LICENSE | |
| JPython License (old) | JPython | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.jython.org/license.html | |
| Knuth License | Knuth | Yes | NO | NO | http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf | |
| LaTeX Project Public License | LPPL | Yes | NO | http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3a.txt | ||
| Latex2e License | Latex2e | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Latex2e | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Labs BSD variant license | LBNL BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LBNLBSD | |
| Lhcyr License | Lhcyr | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Lhcyr | |
| libtiff License | libtiff | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/libtiff | |
| Lisp Library General Public License | LLGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html | |
| Logica Open Source License | Logica | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensmpp.logica.com/CommonPart/Download/Download.htm | |
| Lucent Public License (Plan9) | LPL | Yes | NO | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html | ||
| mecab-ipadic license | mecab-ipadic | Yes | ? | http://www.icot.or.jp/ARCHIVE/terms-and-conditions-for-IFS-J.html | ||
| Microsoft Public License | MS-PL | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-PL | |
| Microsoft Reciprocal License | MS-RL | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-RL | |
| MirOS License | MirOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://mirbsd.de/MirOS-Licence | |
| MIT license (also X11) | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT | |
| mod_macro License | mod_macro | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.cri.ensmp.fr/~coelho/mod_macro/mod_macro/LICENSE | |
| Motosoto License | Motosoto | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/motosoto.php | |
| Mozilla Public License v1.0 | MPLv1.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.0.php | |
| Mozilla Public License v1.1 | MPLv1.1 | Yes | Compatible if dual licensed with GPL, otherwise Incompatible | Compatible if dual licensed with GPL, otherwise Incompatible | http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html | |
| mpich2 License | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT | |
| MX4J License | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MX4J | |
| MySQL License | GPLv2 with exceptions | Yes | ? | http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html | ||
| Naumen Public License | Naumen | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://opensource.org/licenses/naumen.php | |
| NCSA/University of Illinois Open Source License | NCSA | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/faculty/forms/opensource.asp | |
| Neotonic Clearsilver License | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.clearsilver.net/license.hdf | |
| NetCDF license | NetCDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/copyright.html | |
| Nethack General Public License | NGPL | Yes | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/nethack.php | ||
| Netizen Open Source License | NOSL | Yes | NO | http://bits.netizen.com.au/licenses/NOSL/nosl.txt | ||
| Netscape Public License | Netscape | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.html | |
| Newmat License | Newmat | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Newmat_License | |
| Newsletr License | Newsletr | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Newsletr | |
| Nokia Open Source License | Nokia | Yes | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/nokia.html | ||
| Noweb License | Noweb | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Noweb | |
| NRL License | BSD with advertising | Yes | NO | http://web.mit.edu/network/isakmp/nrllicense.html | ||
| Nunit License | MIT with advertising | Yes | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Nunit | ||
| OpenLDAP License | OpenLDAP | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html | |
| Open Market License | OML | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_Market_License | |
| OpenPBS License | OpenPBS | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OpenPBS | |
| Open Software License 1.0 | OSL 1.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-1.0.txt | |
| Open Software License 1.1 | OSL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OSL1.1 | |
| Open Software License 2.0 | OSL 2.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.nexb.com/license/LICENSE-OSL-2.0.html | |
| Open Software License 2.1 | OSL 2.1 | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OSL2.1 | |
| Open Software License 3.0 | OSL 3.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php | |
| OpenSSL License | OpenSSL | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.sdisw.com/openssl.htm | |
| OReilly License | OReilly | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OReilly | |
| Perl License | GPL+ or Artistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ | |
| Perl License (variant) | GPLv2 or Artistic | Yes | Yes | NO | Some perl packages explicitly state GPLv2, only use this license for those cases | |
| Perl License (variant) | GPLv2+ or Artistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some perl packages explicitly state GPLv2+, only use this license for those cases | |
| Perl License (variant) | LGPLv2+ or Artistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some perl packages explicitly state LGPLv2+ (extremely uncommon), only use this license for those cases | |
| Phorum License | Phorum | Yes | NO | http://phorum.org/license.txt | ||
| PHP License v3.0 | PHP | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt | |
| PlainTeX License | PlainTeX | Yes (only on TeX, see license page) | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/PlainTeX | |
| Plexus Classworlds License | Plexus | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Plexus_Classworlds_License | |
| PostgreSQL License | PostgreSQL | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/PostgreSQL_License | |
| psutils License | psutils | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/psutils | |
| Public Domain | Public Domain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. | |
| Python License | Python | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.python.org/2.0.1/license.html | |
| Qhull License | Qhull | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Qhull | |
| Q Public License | QPL | Yes | NO | NO | http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qpl.html | |
| QuickFix License | ASL 1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/license.html | |
| Rdisc License | Rdisc | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Rdisc_License | |
| RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0 | RPSL | Yes | NO | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/real.php | ||
| Rice BSD | RiceBSD | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Rice_BSD_License | |
| Romio License | Romio | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Romio_License | |
| Rsfs License | Rsfs | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Rsfs | |
| Ruby License | Ruby | Yes | Compatible if dual licensed with GPL, otherwise Incompatible | http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt | ||
| Saxpath License | Saxpath | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Saxpath_License | |
| SCEA Shared Source License | SCEA | Yes | NO | NO | http://research.scea.com/scea_shared_source_license.html | |
| SCRIP License | SCRIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SCRIP | |
| Sendmail License | Sendmail | Yes | Compatible if Eric Allman, Sendmail Inc. or the University of California is the copyright holder | Compatible if Eric Allman, Sendmail Inc. or the University of California is the copyright holder | http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/LICENSE | |
| SGI Free Software License B 2.0 | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/SGIFreeSWLicB.2.0.pdf | |
| Sleepycat Software Product License | Sleepycat | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/Sleepycat.html | |
| SLIB License | SLIB | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt | |
| SNIA Public License 1.1 | SNIA | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SNIA_Public_License | |
| Standard ML of New Jersey License | MIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT | |
| Sun Industry Standards Source License | SISSL | Yes | NO | http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html | ||
| Sun Public License | SPL | Yes | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Sun_Public_License | ||
| TCL/TK License | TCL | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/TCL | |
| Teeworlds License | Teeworlds | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Teeworlds | |
| Thor Public License | TPL | Yes | Compatible if dual licensed with GPL, otherwise Incompatible | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ThorPublicLicense | ||
| Threeparttable License | Threeparttable | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Threeparttable | |
| TMate Open Source License | TMate | Yes | NO | NO | http://svnkit.com/license.html | |
| Trusster Open Source License | TOSL | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/TOSL | |
| Unicode Character Database Terms Of Use | UCD | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/UCD | |
| Vim License | Vim | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/uganda.html | |
| Vita Nuova Liberal Source License | VNLSL | Yes | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Vita_Nuova_Liberal_Source_License | ||
| VOSTROM Public License for Open Source | VOSTROM | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/VOSTROM | |
| Vovida Software License v. 1.0 | VSL | Yes | NO | http://opensource.org/licenses/vovidapl.php | ||
| W3C Software Notice and License | W3C | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 | |
| Webmin License | Webmin | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Webmin | |
| Wsuipa License | Wsuipa | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Wsuipa | |
| wxWidgets Library License | wxWidgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/stable/wx_wxlicense.html | |
| xinetd License | xinetd | Yes | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Xinetd_License | ||
| Xerox License | Xerox | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Xerox | |
| XSkat License | XSkat | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/XSkat_License | |
| Yahoo Public License v 1.1 | YPLv1.1 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.1.html | |
| Zed License | Zed | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Zed | |
| Zend License v2.0 | Zend | Yes | NO | http://www.zend.com/license/2_00.txt | ||
| Zope Public License v 1.0 | ZPLv1.0 | Yes | NO | NO | http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL | |
| Zope Public License v 2.0 | ZPLv2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL | |
| Zope Public License v 2.1 | ZPLv2.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZPL | |
| zlib/libpng License | zlib | Yes | Yes | Yes | http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html | |
| zlib/libpng License with Acknowledgement | zlib with acknowledgement | Yes | NO | NO | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ZlibWithAcknowledgement |
Bad Licenses
These are software licenses which are NOT OKAY for openSUSE. Nothing in openSUSE is permitted to use these licenses. They're either non-free or deprecated.
| Full Name | FSF Free? | Upstream URL | Notes |
| 9wm License (Original) | No | http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm/README | The argument that there's a strongly-implied right to modify is unlikely to fly in many countries outside the US. NOTE: 9wm has since been relicensed to MIT. |
| Adaptive Public License | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/apl1.0.php | |
| Agere LT Modem Driver License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Agere_LT_Modem_Driver_License | |
| Aladdin Free Public License | No | http://www.artifex.com/downloads/doc/Public.htm | |
| AMAP License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/AMAP_License | Additional restrictions are non-free and GPL incompatible |
| Amazon Software License | No | http://aws.amazon.com/asl/ | Section 3.3 is a clear field-of-use restriction |
| Apple iTunes License | No | http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/itunes.pdf | No source related permissions |
| Apple Public Source License 1.0 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Apple_Public_Source_License_1.0 | |
| Apple Public Source License 1.1 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Apple_Public_Source_License_1.1 | |
| Apple Public Source License 1.2 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Apple_Public_Source_License_1.2 | |
| Apple Quicktime License | No | http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/quicktime.html | No source related permissions |
| Aptana Public License | No | http://aptana.com/legal/apl/ | No permission to redistribute |
| Artistic 1.0 (original) | No | http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html | See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense |
| AT&T Public License | No | Deprecated license | |
| C/Migemo License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CMigemo | |
| CACert Root Distribution License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CACert_Root_Distribution_License | Liability disclaimer is actually use restriction |
| CodeProject Open License (CPOL) | No | http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx | Unacceptable use restrictions |
| eCos Public License, v1.1 | No | ||
| Eiffel Forum License 1.0 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eiffel_Forum_License_V1 | |
| EMC2 License | No | http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdrom_a_graver/www/emc2/copyright.htm | Commercial use restrictions |
| European Union Public License v1.0 | No | http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eupl | Non-free due to Article 13. |
| Frameworx License | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/frameworx.php | Non-free due to the limitation on charging for "Value-Added Services" |
| Frontier Artistic License | No | http://www.spinwardstars.com/frontier/fal.html | Non-free for the same reasons as regular Artistic 1.0 License |
| GPL for Computer Programs of the Public Administration | No | http://www.celepar.pr.gov.br/modules/conteudo/conteudo.php?conteudo=69 | |
| gSOAP Public License | No | http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/license.html | |
| Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement | No | http://www.hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php | |
| Helix DNA Technology Binary Research Use License | No | https://helixcommunity.org/beula/ | No source permissions, binary EULA |
| HP Software License Terms | No | http://h30097.www3.hp.com/hp_sw_license.html | No source permissions, binary EULA |
| IBM Sample Code License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/IBM_Sample_Code_License | Use restrictions |
| Intel IPW3945 Daemon License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Intel_IPW3945_Daemon_License | No source permissions, binary EULA |
| Intel Open Source License | Yes | http://opensource.org/licenses/intel-open-source-license.php | Deprecated license |
| Jahia Community Source License | No | http://www.jahia.org/jahia/Jahia/pid/145 | |
| lha license | No | http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/l/lha/current/copyright | |
| License Agreement for Application Response Measurement (ARM) SDK | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ApplicationResponseMeasurementSDKLicense | See Notes on license page |
| Maia Mailguard License | No | http://www.maiamailguard.org/license.php | |
| MAME License | No | http://mamedev.org/legal.html | Commercial use restrictions |
| MeepZor Consulting Public Licence | No | http://meepzor.com/packages/autoresponder/LICENCE.txt | Deprecated, upstream uses ASL 2.0 now |
| Metasploit Framework License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Metasploit_Framework_License | |
| Microsoft's Shared Source CLI/C#/Jscript License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Microsoft_Shared_Source_License | |
| MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW) | N/A | http://opensource.org/licenses/mitrepl.php | Deprecated license |
| MSNTP License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MSNTP | Commercial use restrictions |
| mrouted license (old) | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/mrouted | |
| NASA CDF License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/NasaCDF | Commercial use restrictions, poorly worded |
| NASA Open Source Agreement v1.3 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement | |
| OCLC Public Research License 2.0 | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/oclc2.php | Appears to limit the price at which a copy can be charged, not just simply prohibiting imposition of royalties. |
| Open CASCADE Technology Public License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_CASCADE_Technology_Public_License | |
| Open Group Test Suite License | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/opengroup.php | Same flaws as Artistic 1.0 |
| Open Map License | No | http://openmap.bbn.com/license.html | Derived from Artistic 1.0, has same flaws |
| Open Motif Public End User License | No | http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ | Commercial use restrictions |
| Open Public License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_Public_License | |
| Paul Hsieh Derivative License | No | http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/license-derivative.html | |
| Paul Hsieh Exposition License | No | http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/license-exposition.html | |
| Pine License | No | http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html | |
| qmail License | No | http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html | deprecated, qmail is now public domain |
| Reciprocal Public License | No | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php | |
| Ricoh Source Code Public License | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/ricohpl.php | |
| Scilab License (OLD) | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Scilab_License_Old | Current versions of Scilab use the CeCILL license |
| SGI Free Software License B 1.1 or older | No | http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/ | Version 2.0 is MIT, free and GPL compat. |
| SGI GLX Public License 1.0 | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GLX_Public_License | All GLX code now uses Free B 2.0 |
| Siren14 License Agreement | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Siren14_Licensing_Agreement | |
| Spin Commercial License | No | http://www.spinroot.com/spin/spin_license.html | |
| Squeak License | No | http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ | |
| SystemC Open Source License | No | http://www.systemc.org/about/org_docs/license/ | |
| Sun Community Source License | No | http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/ | |
| Sun RPC License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SunRPC | Restrictions on modification, distribution |
| Sun Solaris Source Code (Foundation Release) License | No | http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/librock/license/ssscfr.txt | |
| Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 | No | http://opensource.org/licenses/sybase.php | |
| TrueCrypt License | No | http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license | |
| University of Utah Public License | No | http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gk/teem/txt/LICENSE.txt | |
| University of Washington Free Fork License | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/UofWFreeFork | No longer used |
| unrar license | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Unrar | Use restrictions, forced removal clause, see license page for details |
| X.Net License | N/A | http://opensource.org/licenses/xnet.php | Deprecated license |
| Yahoo Public License 1.0 | No | http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html |
Unknown Licenses
These are licenses for which the openSUSE acceptability is unknown/undecided. If one of your packages uses one of these licenses, please let us know.
Note: Some of these licenses may be pending review from the FSF.
| Full Name | FSF Free? | GPLv2 Compatible? | Upstream URL |
GPL Compatibility Matrix
OK. Hold on tight. Think of this as a horrible legal version of "Does it Blend?".
(contents copied from http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility)
| I want to release a project under: | |||||||
| GPLv2 only | GPLv2 or later | GPLv3 or later | LGPLv2.1 only | LGPLv2.1 or later | LGPLv3 or later | ||
| GPLv2 only | OK | OK 2 | NO | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 2 | NO | |
| GPLv2 or later | OK 1 | OK | OK | OK if you convert to GPL 7 | OK if you convert to GPL 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 | |
| I want to copy code under: | GPLv3 | NO | OK if you upgrade to GPLv3 3 | OK | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 3 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 |
| LGPLv2.1 only | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 | OK if you convert to GPL 7 2 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 | OK | OK 6 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 8 | |
| LGPLv2.1 or later | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 1 | OK if you convert to GPL 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 | OK 5 | OK | OK | |
| LGPLv3 | NO | OK if you upgrade and convert to GPLv3 8 3 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 | OK if you upgrade to LGPLv3 4 | OK |
| I want to release a project under: | |||||||
| GPLv2 only | GPLv2 or later | GPLv3 or later | LGPLv2.1 only | LGPLv2.1 or later | LGPLv3 or later | ||
| GPLv2 only | OK | OK 2 | NO | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv2 7 2 | NO | |
| GPLv2 or later | OK 1 | OK | OK | OK if you convert to GPL 7 1 | OK if you convert to GPL 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 | |
| I want to use (link to) a library under: | GPLv3 | NO | OK if you upgrade to GPLv3 3 | OK | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 7 3 | OK if you convert to GPLv3 8 |
| LGPLv2.1 only | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK | |
| LGPLv2.1 or later | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK | |
| LGPLv3 | NO | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK |
Footnotes:
Template:Anchor 1: You must follow the terms of GPLv2 when incorporating the code in this case. You cannot take advantage of terms in later versions of the GPL.
Template:Anchor 2: If you do this, as long as the project contains the code released under GPLv2 only, you will not be able to upgrade the project's license to GPLv3 or later.
Template:Anchor 3: If you have the ability to release the project under GPLv2 or any later version, you can choose to release it under GPLv3 or any later version—and once you do that, you'll be able to incorporate the code released under GPLv3.
Template:Anchor 4: If you have the ability to release the project under LGPLv2.1 or any later version, you can choose to release it under LGPLv3 or any later version—and once you do that, you'll be able to incorporate the code released under LGPLv3.
Template:Anchor 5: You must follow the terms of LGPLv2.1 when incorporating the code in this case. You cannot take advantage of terms in later versions of the LGPL.
Template:Anchor 6: If you do this, as long as the project contains the code released under LGPLv2.1 only, you will not be able to upgrade the project's license to LGPLv3 or later.
Template:Anchor 7: LGPLv2.1 gives you permission to relicense the code under any version of the GPL since GPLv2. If you can switch the LGPLed code in this case to using an appropriate version of the GPL instead (as noted in the table), you can make this combination.
Template:Anchor 8: LGPLv3 gives you permission to relicense the code under GPLv3. In these cases, you can combine the code if you convert the LGPLed code to GPLv3.
Documentation Licenses
These are the Documentation Licenses that we're aware of. There are almost certainly other Documentation Licenses in existence, if your openSUSE package uses a license not listed here, please email us with the details (and full license text).
Good Licenses
Here is a list of Documentation Licenses that are OK for openSUSE. If your license is not in this list, and you'd like to know if it is appropriate for Fedora, please email us.
| Full Name | Short Name | FSF Free? | Upstream URL |
| Apple's Common Documentation License, Version 1.0 | CDL | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Common_Documentation_License |
| Creative Commons Attribution license | CC-BY | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike | CC-BY-SA | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| FreeBSD Documentation License | FBSDDL | Yes | http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html |
| GNU Free Documentation License | GFDL | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/fdl.html |
| GNU General Public License | (See Note A) | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
| IEEE and Open Group Documentation License | IEEE | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/IEEEDocLicense |
| Linux Documentation Project License | LDPL | Yes | http://tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html |
| Old FSF Documentation License | OFSFDL | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OldFSFDocLicense |
| Open Publication License, v1.0 | Open Publication | Yes, provided the copyright holder does not exercise any of the “LICENSE OPTIONS” listed in Section VI | http://opencontent.org/openpub/ |
| Public Use License, v1.0 | Public Use | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/PublicUseLicense |
Note A: The GNU General Public License can be used for general data which is not software, as long as one can determine what the definition of “source code” refers to in the particular case. In English, it means that you can use the GPL for documentation, but it is not necessarily a good choice, unless you are able to define what "source code" means for your documentation. Also, if you use this license, use the appropriate versioning short names as described in the Software License section.
Bad Licenses
These are documentation licenses which are NOT OKAY for Fedora. Nothing in Fedora should be using these licenses. They're either non-free or deprecated.
| Full Name | FSF Free? | Upstream URL | Notes |
| Open Content License | No | http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml | |
| Open Directory License | No | http://dmoz.org/license.html | |
| W3C Documentation License | ? | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents | Does not permit modification, different from W3C Software License |
Content Licenses
These are the Content Licenses that we're aware of. If your license is not in this list, and you'd like to know if it is appropriate for openSUSE, please email the details to us.
Good Licenses
Here is a list of Content Licenses that are OK for openSUSE. If your license is not in this list, and you'd like to know if it is appropriate for openSUSE, please email us the details. Note that content must be freely distributable without restriction for inclusion in openSUSE, and that a written statement from the content owner granting this is considered an approved license for openSUSE. The one exception is that we permit content (but only content) which restricts modification as long as that is the only restriction.
| Full Name | Short Name | FSF Free? | Upstream URL |
| Creative Commons Attribution license | CC-BY | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike | CC-BY-SA | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs | CC-BY-ND | No | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ |
| Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal | CC0 | Yes | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode |
| Design Science License | DSL | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/dsl.html |
| Distributed Management Task Force License | DMTF | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/DMTF |
| EFF Open Audio License v1 | OAL | Yes | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/OpenAudioLicense |
| Ethymonics Free Music License | EFML | No | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Ethymonics_Free_Music_License |
| Free Art License | Free Art | Yes | http://artlibre.org/licence/lalgb.html |
| GeoGratis Licence Agreement | GeoGratis | Yes | http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp |
| GNU General Public License | (See Note A) | Yes | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
| LinuxTag Green OpenMusic License | Green OpenMusic | Yes (only if clause VI is NOT invoked) | http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/green.html |
Note A: The GNU General Public License can be used for general data which is not software, as long as one can determine what the definition of “source code” refers to in the particular case. In English, it means that you can use the GPL for content, but it is not necessarily a good choice, unless you are able to define what "source code" means for your content. Also, if you use this license, use the appropriate versioning short names as described in the Software License section.
Bad Licenses
These are content licenses which are NOT OKAY for openSUSE. Nothing in openSUSE should be using these licenses. They're either non-free, deprecated, or have usage/distribution restrictions.
| Full Name | FSF Free? | Upstream URL | Notes |
| CAcert Non-Related Persons Disclaimer and License | No | http://www.cacert.org/policy/NRPDisclaimerAndLicence.php | No permission to redistribute |
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs | No | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial | No | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ | |
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike | No | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | |
| Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 | No | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/legalcode | |
| LinuxTag Yellow OpenMusic License | No | http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/yellow.html | Commercial use restrictions |
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