A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.

One standard for licensing free software.

Various licenses and comments about them.

A version of the GPL for reference material.

Overview of the different versions of the Apache licenses.

Formerly: GNU Library GPL.

Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.

Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.

Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, and provides the full text of the license, and FAQs.