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A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors...

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Apache-2.0

A permissive license similar to the MIT License, but with a clause that prohibits others from using the name of the...

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BSD-3-Clause

GNU General Public License v3.0

CopyleftStrong Copyleft

Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed...

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GPL-3.0-only

MIT License

Permissive

A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices....

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MIT

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