Licensing (9)

• Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software (fsf.org) organisation
  Nonprofit behind the GPL, running Defective by Design, End Software Patents and email self-defense
  Advocacy Copyleft Nonprofit #
• Software Freedom Law Center (softwarefreedom.org) news
  legal counsel for FOSS projects and foundations: licensing, nonprofit structure and code-of-conduct practice
  Governance Nonprofit #
• Choose an open source license (Choose a License) reference
  Side-by-side of MIT, GPLv3 and others by what each permits, with well-known projects using them
  Copyleft License Compliance #
• SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) (spdx.org) reference
  Canonical short identifiers, full texts and permanent URLs for licences found in code, data and hardware
  License Compliance Supply Chain Security #
• copyleft-next (next.copyleft.org) reference
  Open drafting project for a rewritten, shorter copyleft licence; editors Fontana and Kuhn, hosted by SFC
  Copyleft Governance #
• REUSE - Make licensing easy for everyone (reuse.software) reference
  FSFE three-step recipe for per-file copyright and SPDX headers, machine-checkable in CI
  License Compliance Supply Chain Security #
• The Open Source Definition (Open Source Initiative) reference
  Ten distribution criteria a license must meet to qualify: redistribution, source, derived works
  License Compliance #
• Debian Social Contract (debian.org) reference
  The DFSG and Debian's five promises; the text the Open Source Definition was derived from
  Debian Governance #
• Free software is a matter of liberty, not price — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (fsf.org) organisation
  Mission and campaigns of the GNU steward: liberty over price, against DRM and software patents
  Advocacy Copyleft Nonprofit #