license-tracking

Tracking the licenses of useful tools and languages

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Free and Open-Source

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Always Free

• https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=tier%23always-free&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=*all
• DynamoDB NoSQL database
• Lambda serverless functions
• SNS push messaging
• CloudFront content delivery
• CloudWatch monitoring
• Cognito identity services
• SES customer engagement
• SQS scaleable queue for app integration
• SWF task and state management service for app integration
• CodeBuild
• CodeCommit
• CodePipeline (1 per month)
• Glue data catalog
• Does NOT include EC2 or S3 (12-mo trials only)

ArangoDB Community Edition (graph database)

• Apache 2.0
• https://www.arangodb.com/
• https://www.arangodb.com/download-major/
• https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/blob/devel/LICENSE
• https://www.arangodb.com/data-privacy-policy/

Autopsy / The Sleuth Kit, plugins

• Apache 2.0
• https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/licenses.php

Beam (open-source unified programming model)

• Apache 2.0
• https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/LICENSE

BinderHub Hosting (Host Jupyter Notebooks)

• BSD 3-Clause License
• https://github.com/jupyterhub/binderhub/blob/main/LICENSE

Delta Lake (open-source storage framework for lakehouse architecture)

• Apache 2.0
• https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Docker Personal / Desktop (containerization)

• https://www.docker.com/pricing/faq/
• Free Docker Desktop for personal, open-source, and education

Flink (compute engine)

• Apache 2.0
• https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/LICENSE

Git (version control system)

• GNU General Public License version 2.0
• https://git-scm.com/about/free-and-open-source

Grafana Open Source Software

• Apache 2.0
• https://grafana.com/oss/

Grafana Cloud - Free Forever Cloud

• https://grafana.com/products/cloud/
• Terms & Conditions - https://grafana.com/legal/terms/?pg=play&plcmt=home
• Master Services Agreement - https://grafana.com/legal/msa/?pg=play&plcmt=home

Great Expectations (data quality platform)

• GX OSS (Open-Source)
• Great Expectations GX OSS

Julia

• MIT
• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Imhex hex editor

• https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/blob/master/LICENSE

Kafka

• Apache 2.0
• https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/LICENSE

Neo4j Community Edition

• GPLv3
• https://neo4j.com/licensing/

Notepad++ "Notepad plus plus" (text editor)

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
• https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/LICENSE

PowerShell Core (cross-platform command line shell and scripting language)

• MIT
• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Python 3.11

• Python Software Foundation ("PSF") License
• https://docs.python.org/3/license.html

Python Examples

• Starting with Python 3.8.6, examples, recipes, and other code in the documentation are dual-licensed
• under the PSF License Agreement and the
• Zero-Clause BSD license - https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#bsd0

Python pip (package manager for Python)

• MIT
• https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

RabbitMQ message broker

• Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
• https://www.rabbitmq.com/mpl.html

Redis (in-memory data store)

• Three clause BSD license
• https://redis.io/docs/about/license/

Spark (compute engine)

• Apache 2.0
• https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE

SQLite (file-based SQL datastore)

• Public Domain
• https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

TortoiseGit (Windows File Explorer git integration)

• GNU General Public License version 2.0
• https://tortoisegit.org/about/
• https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0

VS Code (light-weight cross-platform code editor)

• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

VS Code Extensions (Python, PowerShell, Remote Repositories)

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/oss-extensions

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Open-Source Python Standard Library

• pathlib - for working with paths (e.g. a data subfolder)

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Open-Source Python Developer Tools

• pip - package manager
• wheel - wheel manager for safe, small, fast installations
• black - formatter
• ruff - linter
• pyright - type checker

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Open-Source Python External Libraries

• beautifulsoup4 - data from web pages
• bokeh - interactive charts 🌐 📊 BSD-3 - https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/branch-3.2/LICENSE.txt
• delta-lake - Apache 2.0 - https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
• dweepy - device feeds
• geopy - geographic information
• imageio - work with images
• jinja2 - templating used by Shiny 🌐
• jupyterlab - very popular web-based analytics environment ⭐
• keras - neural networks machine learning, datasets
• matplotlib - custom charts ⭐ 💹
• nltk - natural language toolkit, datasets
• numpy - 1D Arrays
• openpyxl - work with Excel files 📂
• pandas - 2D panel / sheet data ⭐ https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/LICENSE
• pathlib - working with file system paths
• pika - RabbitMQ interface - BSD-3 - https://pypi.org/project/pika/
• plotly - MIT - https://plotly.com/python/is-plotly-free/
• polars - fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python - MIT - https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/master/LICENSE
• prospector - static code analysis
• pymongo - work with noSQL datastore MongoDB and Atlas
• pyspark - work with Apache Spark
• scikit-learn - machine learning
• scipy - statistics and scientific computing
• seaborn - quick charts, datasets ⭐ 💹
• shiny - interactive apps 🌐 📊
• shinyswatch - themes for Shiny apps 🌐
• spacy - natural language processing
• sqlite3 - work with relational databases and SQL ⭐
• statsmodels - modeling, datasets
• tensorflow - machine learning
• textatistic - readability metrics
• textblob - text processing
• wordcloud - visualize frequency of text
• xlsxwriter - writing formatted Excel files 📂

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Proprietary

Great Expectations

• https://greatexpectations.io/
• https://greatexpectations.io/static/fa9ec1c9941e054bd616fff12d59dee3/GX_Master_Subscription_Agreement_Template_-01_24_2023-.pdf

Neo4J Non-Community Edition

• https://neo4j.com/licensing/

WinHex

• https://www.x-ways.net/winhex/order.html

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See Also

• Open Source Licensing - Crash Course
• Protect Yourself from Litigation due to Unexpected Python License Agreements