Open Source Lincenses by Category

Open Source Licenses by Category
* Open Group Test Suite License
* Reciprocal Public License
.::License that are popular and widely used or with strong communities ::.

* Apache License, 2.0
* New and Simplified BSD licenses
* GNU General Public License (GPL)
* GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
* MIT license
* Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
* Common Development and Distribution License
* Common Public License 1.0
* Eclipse Public License

.:: Special purpose licenses ::.

* Educational Community License
* IPA Font License
* NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3

.:: Other/Miscellaneous licenses ::.

* Adaptive Public License
* Artistic license 2.0
* Open Software License
* Qt Public License (QPL)
* zlib/libpng license

.:: Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses ::.

* Academic Free License
* Attribution Assurance Licenses
* Eiffel Forum License V2.0
* Fair License
* Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer
* Lucent Public License Version 1.02
* University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
* X.Net License

.:: Non-reusable licenses ::.

* Apple Public Source License
* Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1
* CUA Office Public License Version 1.0
* EU DataGrid Software License
* Entessa Public License
* Frameworx License
* IBM Public License
* Motosoto License
* Multics License
* Naumen Public License
* Nethack General Public License
* Nokia Open Source License
* OCLC Research Public License 2.0
* PHP License
* Python license (CNRI Python License)
* Python Software Foundation License
* RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0
* Ricoh Source Code Public License
* Sleepycat License
* Sun Public License
* Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0
* Vovida Software License v. 1.0
* W3C License
* wxWindows Library License
* Zope Public License

.:: Superseded licenses ::.

* Apache Software License 1.1
* Artistic license 1.0
* Eiffel Forum License V1.0
* Lucent Public License (Plan9)
* Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL)

.:: Licenses that have been voluntarily retired ::.

* Intel Open Source License
* Jabber Open Source License
* MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License)
* Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)

.:: Uncategorized Licenses ::.

* Affero GNU Public License
* Boost Software License (BSL1.0)
* Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (CPAL)
* European Union Public License (link to every language's version on their site)
* GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)
* GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)
* ISC License
* Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
* Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)
* MirOS Licence
* Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0
* NTP License
* Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (RPL1.5)
* Simple Public License 2.0