- For release software projects, we use MIT or Apache 2.0
- For release documentation projects, we use CC-BY-4.0
If you are using or contributing to an open source project as a part of your day-to-day role, our legal team has provided the following guidelines for the most common licenses:
| License | Using | Contributing |
|---|---|---|
| MIT | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache 2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache 2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 0BSD | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ADSL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| AFL-2.1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| AFL-3.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| AML | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| APAFML | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Adobe-2006 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Adobe-Glyph | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache 2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache-1.1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apache2 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Apple License | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Artistic-1.0-Perl | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Artistic-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-2-Clause | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-3-Clause | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-3-Clause-Attribution | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-3-Clause-Clear | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-4-Clause | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSD-like | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BSL-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Barr | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Beerware | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Borceux | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC-BY License | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC-BY-2.5 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC-BY-3.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC-BY-4.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC-BY-SA-4.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CC0-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CECILL-B | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CECILL-C | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CNRI-Python | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CPOL-1.02 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CeCILL-B | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CeCILL-C | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Copyright (C) 2013, Martin Journois | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Copyright (c) 2012-2013, Gavin M. Roy | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Copyright (c) 2013 Christopher Brown | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Cube | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| DOC | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| DSDP | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Dual License | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ECL-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ECL2 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| EFL-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| EUDATAGRID | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| EUDatagrid | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Eiffel-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Entessa | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Expat License | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Fair | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Giftware | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Glulxe | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| HPND | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IBM-pibs | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IPA | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IPAFont-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ISC | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Intel | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| JSON | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Libpng | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MIT | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MIT/X11 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MPL-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MS-EULA | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MS-PL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| MirOS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multics | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| NCSA | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| NTP | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| OLDAP-2.8 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| OpenLDAP | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Oracle Free Use Terms and Conditions (FUTC) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| PHP-3.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| PHP-3.01 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| PIL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| PostgreSQL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Python-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Python-2.1.1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Rdisc | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SAX-PD | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SGI-B-2.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SMLNJ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Sleepycat | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| StandardML-NJ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| TCL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| UNLICENSED | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| UPL-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Unicode-DFS-2015 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Unicode-DFS-2016 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Unlicense | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| VSL-1.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| WTFPL | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| X11 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Xerox | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Xnet | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ZLIB | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ZPL-2.1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Zlib | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| bzip2-1.0.5 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| bzip2-1.0.6 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| curl | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| diffmark | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| psutils | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Python style | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| GNU Lesser General Public Licence | ||
| GNU Lesser Public License | ||
| LGPL-3.0 | ||
| AAL | ❌ | ❌ |
| AGPL-3.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| AMPAS | ❌ | ❌ |
| APSL-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| ASPRISE OCR SDK LICENSE | ❌ | ❌ |
| Aladdin | ❌ | ❌ |
| Attribution | ❌ | ❌ |
| Bahyph | ❌ | ❌ |
| BitTorrent-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CA-TOSL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CATOSL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CC-BY-NC-3.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CC-BY-NC-4.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CC-BY-ND-4.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CECILL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CECILL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CECILL-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CNRI-Jython | ❌ | ❌ |
| CPAL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CUA-OPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| CUAOFFICE-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Caldera | ❌ | ❌ |
| ClArtistic | ❌ | ❌ |
| Commercial | ❌ | ❌ |
| Condor-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Copyfree | ❌ | ❌ |
| CrystalStacker | ❌ | ❌ |
| Dotseqn | ❌ | ❌ |
| EUPL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| ErlPL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Eurosym | ❌ | ❌ |
| Frameworx-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| FTL | ❌ | ❌ |
| GFDL-1.3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Glide | ❌ | ❌ |
| GPL-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| GPL-3.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| GPLv3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| HaskellReport | ❌ | ❌ |
| Imlib2 | ❌ | ❌ |
| JJ2000 | ❌ | ❌ |
| LPL-1.02 | ❌ | ❌ |
| LPPL-1.3c | ❌ | ❌ |
| Lucent-1.02 | ❌ | ❌ |
| MIT-CMU | ❌ | ❌ |
| MIT-enna | ❌ | ❌ |
| MIT-feh | ❌ | ❌ |
| MPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| MS-RL | ❌ | ❌ |
| Motosoto | ❌ | ❌ |
| Mup | ❌ | ❌ |
| NASA-1.3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NAUMEN | ❌ | ❌ |
| NBPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NGPL | ❌ | ❌ |
| NLOD-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NLPL | ❌ | ❌ |
| NOSL | ❌ | ❌ |
| NPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NPL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NPOSL-3.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| NRL | ❌ | ❌ |
| Naumen | ❌ | ❌ |
| Net-SNMP | ❌ | ❌ |
| NetCDF | ❌ | ❌ |
| Nethack | ❌ | ❌ |
| Newsletr | ❌ | ❌ |
| Nokia | ❌ | ❌ |
| Noweb | ❌ | ❌ |
| Nunit | ❌ | ❌ |
| OCCT-PL | ❌ | ❌ |
| OCLC-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| ODbL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OGTSL | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-1.2 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-1.3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-1.4 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.0.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.2 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.2.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.2.2 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.4 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.5 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.6 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OLDAP-2.7 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OML | ❌ | ❌ |
| OPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSET-PL-2.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSL-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSL-2.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| OSL-3.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Openfont-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Opengroup | ❌ | ❌ |
| Other/Proprietary License | ❌ | ❌ |
| PDDL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Plexus | ❌ | ❌ |
| Proprietary | ❌ | ❌ |
| QPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| QTPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Qhull | ❌ | ❌ |
| RHeCos-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| RPL-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| RPL-1.5 | ❌ | ❌ |
| RPSL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| RSA-MD | ❌ | ❌ |
| RSCPL | ❌ | ❌ |
| Real-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| RicohPL | ❌ | ❌ |
| Ruby | ❌ | ❌ |
| SCEA | ❌ | ❌ |
| SGI-B-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SGI-B-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SISSL | ❌ | ❌ |
| SISSL-1.2 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SMPPL | ❌ | ❌ |
| SNIA | ❌ | ❌ |
| SPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SUNPublic-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SWL | ❌ | ❌ |
| Saxpath | ❌ | ❌ |
| Sendmail | ❌ | ❌ |
| SimPL-2.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Spencer-86 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Spencer-94 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Spencer-99 | ❌ | ❌ |
| SugarCRM-1.1.3 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Sybase-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| TCP-wrappers | ❌ | ❌ |
| TMate | ❌ | ❌ |
| TORQUE-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| TOSL | ❌ | ❌ |
| UoI-NCSA | ❌ | ❌ |
| VIM License | ❌ | ❌ |
| VOSTROM | ❌ | ❌ |
| Vim | ❌ | ❌ |
| VovidaPL-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| W3C-19980720 | ❌ | ❌ |
| W3C-20150513 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Watcom-1.0 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Wsuipa | ❌ | ❌ |
| XFree86-1.1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| gSOAP-1.3b | ❌ | ❌ |
| libtiff | ❌ | ❌ |
| wxWindows | ❌ | ❌ |
| ANTLR-PD | ✔️ | |
| CDDL-1.0 | ✔️ | |
| Day-Addendum | ✔️ | |
| EPL-1.0 | ✔️ | |
| EPL-2.0 | ✔️ | |
| IBMPL-1.0 | ✔️ | |
| IPL-1.0 | ✔️ | |
| LGPL-2.1 | ❌ | |
| MPL-1.1 | ✔️ | |
| Unicode-TOU | ✔️ |