All software licenses in the CLIP database:
- BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License [BSD-2-Clause]
FreeBSD - BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License [BSD-3-Clause]
FreeBSD / UC Berkeley - BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License [BSD-4-Clause]
FreeBSD / UC Berkeley - GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 [AGPL-3.0]
Free Software Foundation - GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later [AGPL-3.0+]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v1.0 only [GPL-1.0]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v1.0 or later [GPL-1.0+]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v2.0 only [GPL-2.0]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v2.0 or later [GPL-2.0+]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v3.0 only [GPL-3.0]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v3.0 or later [GPL-3.0+]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v3.0 w/Autoconf exception [GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception]
Free Software Foundation - GNU General Public License v3.0 w/GCC Runtime Library exception [GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception]
Free Software Foundation - GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only [LGPL-2.1]
Free Software Foundation - GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later [LGPL-2.1+]
Free Software Foundation - GNU Library General Public License v2 only [LGPL-2.0]
Free Software Foundation - GNU Library General Public License v2 or later [LGPL-2.0+]
Free Software Foundation
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Contribute
Want to help expand CLIP's database of licensing information? Spot an error in one of the licenses? You can add a new license or edit an existing one with our user-friendly license editor.
Simply fill out the license editor form and then copy the generated JSON data. You can either e-mail us the data, or, preferably, directly submit your updates to our GitHub repository.
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About CLIP
The CIPPIC Open Licensing Project (CLIP) is an initiative of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public
Interest Clinic, a public interest technology law clinic at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa.
This is a beta version of the project. The information may contain errors. We will also be adding additional licenses and new features in the future!
Financial support for the project provided by GeoConnections, a national collaborative initiative
led by National Resources Canada.
GeoConnections supports the integration and use of Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), an on-line resource that improves the sharing, access and use of open geospatial information.