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<h2><a id="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
-<p>We classify a license according to certain key questions:</p>
+<p>We classify a license according to certain key criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>Whether it qualifies as a
- <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free
- software</a> license.</li>
+ <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> license.</li>
<li>Whether it is a <a
- href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>
- license.</li>
+ href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a> license.</li>
<li>Whether it
is <a href="/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean">compatible
with the GNU GPL</a>. Unless otherwise specified, compatible
@@ -47,28 +45,33 @@
<li>Whether it causes any particular practical problems.</li>
</ul>
+<p>We try to list the most commonly encountered free software license on
+this page, but cannot list them all; we'll try our best to answer
+questions about free software licenses whether or not they are listed
+here. The licenses are more or less in alphabetical order within each
+section.</p>
+
+<p>If you believe you have found a violation of one of our licenses,
+please refer to our <a href="/licenses/gpl-violation.html">license
+violation page</a>.</p>
+
+<a id="LicensingMailingList"></a>
<p>If you want help choosing a license, evaluating a license, or have
-any other questions about licenses, you can email us at <a
-href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+other questions about licenses, you can email us at <a
+href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>. We have
+a very large backlog of requests, so please read our web pages here first,
+you'll get an answer sooner. Also, the more specific your question is,
+the more likely we'll be able to answer it quickly. (We also <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/volunteer";>welcome knowledgeable volunteers</a>
+to help answer licensing questions.)</p>
-<p>If you are contemplating writing a new license, please contact the
-FSF by writing to <a
+<p>If you are contemplating writing a new license, please also contact
+us at <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>. The
-proliferation of different free software licenses means increased work
-for users in understanding the licenses; we may be able to help you find
-an existing free software license that meets your needs. We try to list
-the most commonly encountered free software license on this page, but
-cannot list them all; we'll try our best to answer questions about free
-software licenses whether or not they are listed here. The licenses are
-more or less in alphabetical order within each section.</p>
-
-<p>If that isn't possible, if you really need a new license, with our
-help you can ensure that the license really is a Free Software license
-and avoid various practical problems.</p>
-
-<p>By the way, if you believe you have found a violation of one of our
-licenses, please refer to
-our <a href="/licenses/gpl-violation.html">license violation page</a>.</p>
+proliferation of different free software licenses is a significant
+problem in the free software community today, both for users and
+developers. We will do our best to help you find an existing free
+software license that meets your needs.</p>
<hr />
@@ -1623,7 +1626,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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- $Date: 2008/09/06 18:11:50 $
+ $Date: 2008/09/17 18:12:01 $
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@@ -135,6 +135,69 @@
<h3 id="Laws">Laws and Issues</h3>
+<h4>Copyright</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">Misinterpreting
+ Copyright</a> is another essay
+ by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> about the
+ flaws in popular defenses of copyright law.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus
+ Curiae in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">Science must
+ “push copyright aside”</a>, another work
+ of <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> that
+ appeared in
+ the <a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html";>
+ Nature Webdebates</a> in 2001, explains how copyright is impeding
+ progress in scientific research.
+ <ul>
+ <li>You may also be interested
+ in <a href="http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org";>The
+ Public Library of Science</a>, which is dedicated to making
+ scientific research freely available to all on the
+ Internet.</li>
+ <li>A
+ <a
href="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6960/full/425752b_fs.html";>
+ related article</a> describes how the principal scientific
+ organizations of Germany have issued a joint declaration in
+ support of the provision of free scientific information over
+ the Internet.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">Reevaluating
+ Copyright: The Public must prevail</a></li>
+
+ <li><a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/complaint_orig.html";>
+ Eldred v. Reno</a> is about a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends
+ copyright by 20 extra years.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html">Freedom-Or
+ Copyright?</a> by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+ Stallman</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html">Freedom-Or
+ Copyright?</a>, an older version of the essay.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html"
+ id="StallmanTalkLSM"> Copyright versus community in the age of
+ computer networks</a>: is a verbatim transcript of a talk
+ by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";> Richard Stallman</a> at the
+ Logiciel Libre Conference in July 2000.</li>
+
+ <li><a
href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL2_20040903.pdf";>
+ An English translation</a> of the famous decision of the District
+ Court of Munich (Germany) regarding the enforceability and validity
+ of the GPL. The translation was done by the Oxford Internet
+ Institute.</li>
+ <!-- This link is broken
+ <li><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>Examples of
+ Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
+ -->
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Digital Restrictions Management</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.2/stallman.php";>The root
of this problem is software controlled by its developer</a>, by
@@ -146,128 +209,137 @@
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-audio-format-matters.html">Why Audio
Format matters</a> by Karl Fogel</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">Don't Let
- “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a>, by
- Richard M. Stallman.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/opposing-drm.html">Opposing Digital Rights
+ Mismanagement</a>, by Richard M. Stallman, answers a few common
+ questions about DRM.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or
+ Copyright</a> a slightly modified version of the article, originally
+ published in Technology Review in 2000,
+ by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";> Richard Stallman</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious Incident of Sun
in the Night-Time</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
+ computer?</a>, a work by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
+ Stallman</a> about the so-called “trusted computing”
+ initiatives.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/opposing-drm.html">Opposing Digital Rights
Mismanagement</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman, answers a few common questions about DRM.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read: A
+ Dystopian Short Story</a> by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>
+ Richard Stallman</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="http://counterpunch.org/baker08192004.html";>
- Why We Need “Free Software” Voting Machines</a></li>
+<h4>(Not) <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">
+“Intellectual Property”</a></h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">Don't Let
+ “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a>, by
+ Richard M. Stallman.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
- Society</a></li>
+ <li>Comments from Richard Stallman
+ on <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">the ICLC's rejection of the
+ IP Enforcement Directive</a></li>
+
+ <li>Richard Stallman has
+ written <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">a review of
+ Boldrin and Levine's “The case against intellectual
+ property.”</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say
+ “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage</a>.
+ An essay on the true meaning of the phrase “Intellectual
+ Property”, by Richard M. Stallman</li>
+</ul>
+<h4>Patents</h4>
+<ul>
<li><a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
- Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a> rewritten</li>
+ Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a>
+ rewritten</li>
- <li>Comments from Richard Stallman on <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">
- the ICLC's rejection of the IP Enforcement Directive</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">That's fighting
+ talk</a> a slightly modified version of the article, originally
+ published in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a> of
+ London by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> and
+ Nick Hill.</li>
+
+ <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/protecting.html">Right
+ to Write Software</a> (independent of whether it's free or not)</li>
+
+ <li>In <a
href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_felten_pr.html";>
+ Felten v. RIAA</a>, scientists are asking a court to rule that the
+ Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from
+ publishing their research.</li>
- <li>Richard Stallman has written <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">
- a review of Boldrin and Levine's “The case against
- intellectual property.”</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and Linux</a>,
- by Richard Stallman, discusses how SCO's lawsuit against IBM pertains to
the
- work of the GNU project. Please see the <a
href="/philosophy/sco/sco.html">
- FSF SCO Response Page</a> for more details on this subject.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">That's fighting talk</a>
- a slightly modified version of the article, originally published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a> of London by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> and Nick
Hill.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or Copyright</a>
- a slightly modified version of the article, originally published in
- Technology Review in 2000, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>
- Richard Stallman</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/";>EFF
+ “Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture Association of
+ America) DVD Cases” Archive</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">The introduction by
- Lawrence Lessig</a> to <a href="/doc/book13.html"><i>Free Software, Free
- Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman</i></a> is available
- for reading.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent
+ Reform Is Not Enough</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">Misinterpreting
- Copyright</a> is another essay by <a
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a> about the flaws in popular defenses of copyright law.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
+ Software Patents</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
- computer?</a>, a work by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a> about the so-called “trusted computing”
- initiatives.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus Curiae
- in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
+ id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential Innovation, Patents, and
+ Imitation</a> is a paper that presents a mathematical model showing
+ how patents can impede progress in fields like software.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">Science must
- “push copyright aside”</a>, another work
- of <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> that
- appeared in the
- <a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html";>
- Nature Webdebates</a> in 2001, explains how copyright is
- impeding progress in scientific research.
- <ul>
- <li>You may also be interested in
- <a href="http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org";>The Public Library of
- Science</a>, which is dedicated to making scientific research
freely
- available to all on the Internet.</li>
- <li>A
- <a
href="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6960/full/425752b_fs.html";>related
- article</a> describes how the principal scientific organizations
- of Germany have issued a joint declaration in support of the
- provision of free scientific information over the Internet.</li>
- </ul></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</a>.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ms-doj-tunney.html">FSF's Statement in Response
- to Proposed Revised Final Judgment in Microsoft vs. United States,
- submitted to the US Department of Justice under the Tunney Act</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/new-monopoly.html">U.S. Congress Threatens to
- Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</a>, an attempt of the Congress to
- create a private monopoly over repeating publicly known
- information.</li>
+ <li><a
href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html";>
+ Soft sell</a>. An article by Richard M. Stallman published in
+ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
- <li>In <a
href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_felten_pr.html";>Felten
- v. RIAA</a>, scientists are asking a court to rule that the Digital
- Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from publishing
- their research.</li>
+ <li><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
+ Patent absurdity</a>, an article by Richard M. Stallman published in
+ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/";>EFF
- “Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture
- Association of America) DVD Cases” Archive</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/trivial-patent.html">The Anatomy of a
+ Trivial Patent</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
+</ul>
- <!-- This link is broken
- <li><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>Examples of
Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
- -->
+<h4>Misc</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious
+ Incident of Sun in the Night-Time</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">Reevaluating
- Copyright: The Public must prevail</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://counterpunch.org/baker08192004.html";>Why We Need
+ “Free Software” Voting Machines</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read: A Dystopian
- Short Story</a> by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
+ Society</a></li>
- <li><a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/complaint_orig.html";>Eldred
- v. Reno</a> is about a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends
- copyright by 20 extra years.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and
+ Linux</a>, by Richard Stallman, discusses how SCO's lawsuit against
+ IBM pertains to the work of the GNU project. Please see
+ the <a href="/philosophy/sco/sco.html">FSF SCO Response Page</a> for
+ more details on this subject.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wassenaar.html">Encryption
- software volunteers needed in countries without export control</a>.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">The introduction by
+ Lawrence Lessig</a> to <a href="/doc/book13.html"><i>Free Software,
+ Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman</i></a> is
+ available for reading.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/ms-doj-tunney.html">FSF's Statement in
+ Response to Proposed Revised Final Judgment in Microsoft vs. United
+ States, submitted to the US Department of Justice under the Tunney
+ Act</a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/new-monopoly.html">U.S. Congress Threatens
+ to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</a>, an attempt of the Congress
+ to create a private monopoly over repeating publicly known
+ information.</li>
- <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/protecting.html">Right to Write
- Software</a> (independent of whether it's free or not)</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/wassenaar.html">Encryption software
+ volunteers needed in countries without export control</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/dat.html">The Right Way to Tax DAT</a></li>
- <li>How to Protect the
- <a href="/philosophy/basic-freedoms.html">Freedoms
- of Speech, Press, and Association</a>
- on the Internet</li>
+ <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/basic-freedoms.html">
+ Freedoms of Speech, Press, and Association</a> on the Internet</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">Censoring My
Software</a>, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
@@ -278,68 +350,22 @@
States Postal Service to collect private information from
customers.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent Reform
- Is Not Enough</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
- Software Patents</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
-
<li><a href="/philosophy/ucita.html">Why We Must Fight UCITA</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/11/27/001127opfoster.xml";>
- A world with UCITA may allow fine print to outweigh the right thing</a>
- by Ed Foster <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html">Freedom-Or
- Copyright?</a> by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
Stallman</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html">Freedom-Or
- Copyright?</a>, an older version of the essay.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
- id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential
- Innovation, Patents, and Imitation</a> is a paper that presents a
- mathematical model showing how patents can
- impede progress in fields like software.</li>
-
- <li><a href="copyright-versus-community.html" id="StallmanTalkLSM">
- Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks</a>:
- is a verbatim transcript of a talk by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>
- Richard Stallman</a> at the Logiciel Libre Conference in July 2000.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL2_20040903.pdf";>
- An English translation</a> of the famous decision of the District Court
of Munich (Germany) regarding the
- enforceability and validity of the GPL. The translation was done by the
Oxford Internet Institute.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say “Intellectual
Property”?
- It's a Seductive Mirage</a>. An essay on the true meaning of
- the phrase “Intellectual Property”, by Richard M.
Stallman</li>
+ A world with UCITA may allow fine print to outweigh the right
+ thing</a> by Ed Foster <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/second-sight.html">Free Software and
- (e-)Government</a> - an article from The Guardian, by Richard
- Stallman (originally published under the title “Second
Sight”).</li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.virtueel.com/upd/ins_opinions.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
- Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> - A short article by
- Richard Stallman regarding the use of proprietary software in
- cultural development.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html";>
- Soft sell</a>. An article by Richard M. Stallman published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
- Patent absurdity</a>, an article by Richard M. Stallman published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/trivial-patent.html">The Anatomy of a Trivial
Patent</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
+ (e-)Government</a> — an article from The Guardian, by Richard
+ Stallman (originally published under the title “Second
+ Sight”).</li>
+
+ <li><a
href="http://www.virtueel.com/upd/ins_opinions.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
+ Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> — A short
+ article by Richard Stallman regarding the use of proprietary
+ software in cultural development.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="terminology">Terminology and Definitions</h3>
@@ -437,7 +463,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2008/09/14 18:11:57 $
+$Date: 2008/09/17 18:12:01 $
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</p>
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