TYPES OF OPEN SOURCE LICENSES

 1)Mozilla Public License

-The Mozilla Public License Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free, open source, and detailed software developed and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation.

- It supports software that is open source, but may be linked with closed-source modules or extensions. 

2)Apache License

-The Apache License is essentially a BSD-style license (including the advertisement clause)

plus some additional conditions.

-Apache License may actually give incentives for a licensee to have a greater commitment to the open source development model than would be required by an ordinary BSD-style license

3) General Public License 


 -It is the single most widely used free-software license.

 -These extra requirements actually make the GPL more restrictive than any of the other commonly used licenses.

4)MIT or X Consortium License

 -The MIT License is a free software license originating at the the    Massachusetss Institute of Technology  (MIT).

-The loosest kind of free-software license is one that grants unrestricted rights to copy, use, modify, and redistribute modified 

5)BSD Classic License

-The next least restrictive kind of license grants unrestricted rights to copy, use, modify, and redistribute modified.

-The original BSD license is the best-known license of this kind. 

6)Artistic License

-The next most restrictive kind of license grants unrestricted rights to copy, use, and locally modify. 

-It allows redistribution of modified binaries.