Medium Licence Examples
This information is for general guidance and is NOT legal advice
| Provides copyright protection | Can be used in commercial applications | Copyfree | Provides explicit patent licence | Can be used in proprietary solutions | Copyleft | Additional notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Development and Distribution License 1.0 (CDDL) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Limited (original files only) |
Produced by Sun Microsystems Based on the Mozilla Public License (v1.1) |
| Common Public License 1.0 (CPL) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Weak | Used by some Microsoft projects on SourceForge Allows non-CPL-licensed software to link to a library under CPL without requiring the linked source code to be made available to the licensee |
| Eclipse Public License 1.0 (EPL) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Weak | Based on the Common Public License |
| GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 (LGPLv2.1) | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Weak | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPLv3) | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Weak | Based on the GNU General Public License 3.0 |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Limited (original files only) |