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COMPARISONS There are also Shared Source licenses, such as the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL) and Microsoft Community License (MS-CL), which have some similarities with open source. Other shared source licenses, such as the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL), are not compatible with the Open Source Definition. The Free Software Foundation has related but distinct criteria for evaluating whether or not a license qualifies a program as Free Software . Likewise, the Debian project has its own criteria, the Debian Free Software Guidelines , on which the Open Source Definition is based. OSI APPROVED LICENSES Software in the Public Domain (that is, with all copyright renounced), meets those criteria as long as all source code is made available, and is therefore recognized by the OSI and entitled to use their Service Mark . In addition, OSI has approved the following licenses As Of 2007 : The categories were created by a License Proliferation commettee in 2006 to lessen or remove issues caused by license proliferationhttp://www.opensource.org/proliferation-report Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities(9)
Special purpose licenses (3) Other/Miscellaneous licenses (5)
Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses (8)
Non-reusable licenses (25)
Superseded licenses (4)
Licenses that have been voluntarily retired (4)
Not categorized NON-OSI SOURCE LICENSES Licenses that are source-available but not OSI-Certified include:
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