- 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 | ✔️ |