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TLDRLegal - Open Source Licenses Explained in Plain English可以很方便查询各个开源license的总结(能做什么,不能做什么),还能比较不同的license,非常方便。

对于经常需要检查开源软件能不能用在自己的项目中的人来说,必须放到收藏夹啊:)

下面贴一个用的最多的开源license列表:(来源是http://osrc.blackducksoftware.com/data/licenses/)













































































































RankLicense%
1.GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.032.65%
2.Apache License 2.012.84%
3.GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.011.62%
4.MIT License11.28%
5.BSD License 2.06.83%
6.Artistic License (Perl)6.27%
7.GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.16.19%
8.GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.02.62%
9.Eclipse Public License (EPL)1.61%
10.Code Project Open 1.02 License1.33%
11.Microsoft Public License1.32%
12.Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.11.08%
13.Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)0.31%
14.BSD 2-clause “Simplified” or “FreeBSD” License0.30%
15.Common Public License (CPL)0.26%
16.zlib/libpng License0.23%
17.Academic Free License0.20%
18.GNU Affero GPL v30.16%
19.Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)0.14%
20.Open Software License (OSL)0.14%
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