tl;drLegal ——开源软件license的搜索引擎

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/)

Rank License %
1. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 32.65%
2. Apache License 2.0 12.84%
3. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 11.62%
4. MIT License 11.28%
5. BSD License 2.0 6.83%
6. Artistic License (Perl) 6.27%
7. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 6.19%
8. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0 2.62%
9. Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.61%
10. Code Project Open 1.02 License 1.33%
11. Microsoft Public License 1.32%
12. Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1 1.08%
13. Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) 0.31%
14. BSD 2-clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License 0.30%
15. Common Public License (CPL) 0.26%
16. zlib/libpng License 0.23%
17. Academic Free License 0.20%
18. GNU Affero GPL v3 0.16%
19. Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) 0.14%
20. Open Software License (OSL) 0.14%