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A hand-picked, annotated list of Web resources about Open license.

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Creative Commons Licenses
Open Definition — provides the Open Knowledge Definition and the Open Software Service Definition
Licenses — a general list of open licenses

Licenses — a list of open source software licenses, compiled and mainained by GNU

Various Licenses and Comments about Them — another list of open source software licenses, compiled and mainained by the Open Source Initiative

Why Share-Alike Licenses are Open but Non-Commercial Ones Aren’t — an essay by Rufus Pollock
The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License — a similar essay by Erik Möller
Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library — a similar essay on the choice between a GNU Public License and a Lesser GNU Public License

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