OSI-approved "open Source" Licenses
The group Open Source Initiative (OSI) defines and maintains a list of approved open source licenses. OSI agrees with FSF on all widely used free software licenses, but differ from FSF's list since the two organizations have different requirement for approving licenses.
For more details on this topic, see List of OSI approved software licenses.Read more about this topic: Free Software Licensing
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