Template:License

Usage

For GNU GPL licensed software, use:

• {{license|GPL}} for GPL;
• {{license|GPLv1}} for GPLv1;
• {{license|GPLv2}} for GPLv2;
• {{license|GPLv3}} for GPLv3;

For GNU LGPL licensed software, use:

• {{license|LGPL}} for LGPL;
• {{license|LGPLv2}} for LGPLv2;
• {{license|LGPLv21}} for LGPLv2.1;
• {{license|LGPLv3}} for LGPLv3;

For Affero AGPL/GNU AGPL licensed software, use:

• {{license|AGPLv1}} for AGPLv1;
• {{license|AGPLv3}} for AGPLv3;

For BSD licensed software, use:

• {{license|0BSD}} for BSD-0-Clause;
  • {{license|BSD0}} for BSD-0-Clause;
• {{license|2BSD}} for ;
  • {{license|BSD2}} for BSD-2-Clause;
• {{license|3BSD}} for ;
  • {{license|BSD3}} for BSD-3-Clause;
• {{license|4BSD}} for ;
  • {{license|BSD4}} for BSD-4-Clause;

For MIT licensed software, use:

• {{license|MIT}} for MIT;

For Apache licensed software, use:

• {{license|Apache1}} for Apache 1.0;
• {{license|Apache11}} for Apache 1.1;
• {{license|Apache2}} for Apache 2.0;

For MPL licensed software, use:

• {{license|MPL}} for MPL;
• {{license|MPL1}} for MPL 1.0;
• {{license|MPL11}} for MPL 1.1;
• {{license|MPL2}} for MPL 2.0;

For Creative Commons licensed software, use:

• {{license|CCBY}} for CC BY;
• {{license|CCBYSA}} for CC BY-SA;
• {{license|CCBYNC}} for CC BY-NC;
• {{license|CCBYNCSA}} for CC BY-NC-SA;
• {{license|CCBYND}} for CC BY-ND;
• {{license|CCBYNCND}} for CC BY-NC-ND;
• {{license|CC0}} for CC0;

For Artistic license licensed software, use:

• {{license|Artistic1}} for Artistic License 1.0;
• {{license|ClarifiedArtistic}} for Clarified Artistic License;
• {{license|Artistic2}} for Artistic License 2.0;
• {{license|Artistic}} for Artistic License;

For software using other licenses, use:

• {{license|ISC}} for ISC;
• {{license|zlib}} for zlib License;
• {{license|TPL}} for TPL;
• {{license|Unlicense}} for Unlicense;
• {{license|MAME}} for MAME license;
• {{license|Beerware}} for Beerware;
• {{license|WTFPLv1}} for WTFPL 1.0;
• {{license|WTFPLv2}} for WTFPL 2.0;

For types of licenses use:

• {{license|Multi}} for Multi-licensed;
• {{license|Dual}} for Dual licensed;
• {{license|PD}} or {{license|PublicDomain}} for Public domain
• {{license|PDEQ}} for Public domain equivalent
• {{license|NC}} for Non-commercial;
• {{license|SA}} for Source-available;
• {{license|Open}} for Open-source;
• {{license|Copyleft}} for Copyleft;
• {{license|Permissive}} for Permissive;

For Proprietary software use:

• {{license|Proprietary}} for Proprietary;
• {{license|Freeware}} for Freeware;

Color templates

When used in the License column in pages it can be combined with three color templates:

Color	Template call
Green	{{Green}}
Yellow	{{Yellow}}
Red	{{Red}}

• Green for Open-source, Permissive, Copyleft, Public domain, and Public domain equivalent licenses
• Yellow for Non-commercial licenses
• Red for Proprietary and Source-available licenses

Lists of licenses and their categorization are provided by the GNU project here and by OSI here.