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Software Licenses in Plain English

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Look up popular software licenses summarized at-a-glance

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BSD 3-Clause License (Revised)

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Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0)

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GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

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Eclipse Public License 1.0 (EPL-1.0)

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OpenSSL License (OpenSSL)

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Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

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