Open Source Licenses

Explore the 106 different licenses found across 1313258 Python packages.

Permissive 8 types

Allow use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions. Commercial use is typically allowed.

MIT

A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

764617 packages
Apache-2.0

A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

413590 packages
BSD-3-Clause

A permissive license similar to the BSD 2-Clause License, but with a 3rd clause that prohibits others from using the name of the copyright holder or its contributors to promote derived products without written consent.

66754 packages
BSD-2-Clause

A permissive license that comes in two variants, the BSD 2-Clause and BSD 3-Clause. Both have very minimal requirements about how the software can be redistributed.

14571 packages
ISC

A permissive license lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty. The ISC license is functionally equivalent to the BSD 2-Clause and MIT licenses.

2356 packages
PSF-2.0

A permissive free software license compatible with the GNU General Public License. It is the license under which Python itself is released.

218 packages
Artistic-2.0
52 packages
Zlib

A permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed.

11 packages
Unknown 93 types

Licenses that could not be identified or are missing from package metadata.

GPL-3.0-only
93508 packages
AGPL-3.0-only
47418 packages
GPL-2.0-only
13705 packages
LGPL-3.0-only
11387 packages
LGPL-2.1-only
3867 packages
Elastic-2.0
2919 packages
EPL-2.0
944 packages
EUPL-1.2
716 packages
AGPL-3.0-or-later
610 packages
GPL-2.0-or-later
483 packages
WTFPL
432 packages
CC-BY-4.0
282 packages
CC-BY-SA-4.0
260 packages
BUSL-1.1
213 packages
EPL-1.0
198 packages
CC-BY-NC-4.0
182 packages
PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0
180 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
144 packages
LGPL-2.1-or-later
52 packages
SSPL-1.0
48 packages
PostgreSQL
31 packages
MulanPSL-2.0
29 packages
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
25 packages
CECILL-C
23 packages
FSL-1.1-ALv2
23 packages
CECILL-B
19 packages
0BSD
16 packages
CC-BY-ND-4.0
14 packages
BSD-4-Clause
13 packages
UPL-1.0
8 packages
any-OSI
8 packages
BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
7 packages
OLDAP-2.8
7 packages
CDDL-1.0
6 packages
EUPL-1.1
6 packages
MPL-1.1
6 packages
OSL-3.0
6 packages
OGL-Canada-2.0
5 packages
W3C-20150513
4 packages
AFL-3.0
3 packages
AGPL-1.0
3 packages
AGPL-1.0-only
3 packages
AGPL-1.0-or-later
3 packages
APSL-2.0
3 packages
Arphic-1999
3 packages
Artistic-1.0
3 packages
C-UDA-1.0
3 packages
CAL-1.0-Combined-Work-Exception
3 packages
CC-BY-NC-3.0-DE
3 packages
CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-DE
3 packages
CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-IGO
3 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-IGO
3 packages
CC-BY-ND-3.0-DE
3 packages
CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
3 packages
CC-BY-SA-2.1-JP
3 packages
CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT
3 packages
CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
3 packages
CDLA-Sharing-1.0
3 packages
CERN-OHL-S-2.0
3 packages
CERN-OHL-W-2.0
3 packages
CPOL-1.02
3 packages
FDK-AAC
3 packages
Hippocratic-2.1
3 packages
JPL-image
3 packages
LGPL-2.0
3 packages
LGPL-2.0-or-later
3 packages
Linux-man-pages-copyleft
3 packages
MS-LPL
3 packages
NCGL-UK-2.0
3 packages
OpenPBS-2.3
3 packages
PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0
3 packages
QPL-1.0-INRIA-2004
3 packages
Sendmail-8.23
3 packages
SimPL-2.0
3 packages
TAPR-OHL-1.0
3 packages
TPL-1.0
3 packages
UCL-1.0
3 packages
copyleft-next-0.3.0
3 packages
copyleft-next-0.3.1
3 packages
eCos-2.0
3 packages
wxWindows
3 packages
Beerware
2 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-DE
2 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-FR
2 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-UK
2 packages
CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-DE
2 packages
EPICS
2 packages
OFL-1.1
2 packages
Python-2.0
2 packages
EFL-2.0
1 packages
NPOSL-3.0
1 packages
OGL-UK-3.0
1 packages
python-ldap
1 packages

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