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Affero General Public License v1.0Affero, Inc. · 2002The earlier network-focused Affero copyleft that inspired the GNU AGPL line.AGPL-1.0-onlyCopyleftAffero, Inc.2002CeCILL 2.1CEA / CNRS / INRIA · 2013French free software copyleft license aligned with European law and intended to remain GPL-compatible.CECILL-2.1CopyleftCEA / CNRS / INRIA2013Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0Creative Commons · 2007The previous ShareAlike generation, still carried by an enormous body of existing works — including years of Wikipedia history.CC-BY-SA-3.0CopyleftCreative Commons2007Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Creative Commons · 2013Copyleft for cultural works: adaptations must be shared under the same terms. The license of Wikipedia and much of the free culture movement.CC-BY-SA-4.0CopyleftCreative Commons2013GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Free Software Foundation · 2007Copyleft that also covers software used over a network — users of a service must be able to get its source.AGPL-3.0-or-laterCopyleftFree Software Foundation2007GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 onlyFree Software Foundation · 2007GNU AGPLv3 without the “or later” clause, extending source-sharing obligations to network users of the software.AGPL-3.0-onlyCopyleftFree Software Foundation2007GNU Free Documentation License v1.3Free Software Foundation · 2008Copyleft for manuals and documentation, designed so free software ships with free documentation. Wikipedia's original license.GFDL-1.3-or-laterCopyleftFree Software Foundation2008GNU General Public License v1.0Free Software Foundation · 1989The original GNU copyleft license that established the basic reciprocity model later refined by GPLv2 and GPLv3.GPL-1.0-or-laterCopyleftFree Software Foundation1989GNU General Public License v2.0Free Software Foundation · 1991The license of the Linux kernel and decades of free software history. A foundational copyleft text.GPL-2.0-or-laterCopyleftFree Software Foundation1991GNU General Public License v2.0 onlyFree Software Foundation · 1991GPLv2 without the automatic “or later” clause. Important for kernel-space and projects that pin precisely to v2.GPL-2.0-onlyCopyleftFree Software Foundation1991GNU General Public License v3.0Free Software Foundation · 2007The strongest widely-used copyleft license. Derivative works must remain free under the same terms.GPL-3.0-or-laterCopyleftFree Software Foundation2007GNU General Public License v3.0 onlyFree Software Foundation · 2007GPLv3 without the “or later” upgrade clause, preserving the stronger anti-tivoization and patent terms of version 3 only.GPL-3.0-onlyCopyleftFree Software Foundation2007Open Software License 3.0Lawrence Rosen · 2005A strong copyleft license with explicit patent language and conditions oriented toward modern software distribution.OSL-3.0CopyleftLawrence Rosen2005SIL Open Font License 1.1SIL International · 2005The standard free license for fonts: fonts may be used, modified and redistributed, but must stay under the OFL.OFL-1.1CopyleftSIL International2005