Open Education Resources: An Introduction

Open Source Initiative promotes open source software, development, and communities. 

Open Source Licenses allow software to be freely use, modifies, and shared.  The following are OSE-approved licenses are popular, widely used, or have strong communities

• Apache License 2.0
• BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license
• BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license
• GNU General Public License (GPL)
• GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
• MIT License
• Mozilla Public License 2.0
• Common Development and Distribution License
• Eclipse Public License

More Open software licenses are available.  Licenses by Name 

One example of a Open Software License is:    OSL-3.0    This Open Software License applies to any original work of authorship has placed the follow licensing notice adjacent to the copyright notice for the original work:

Licensed under the Open Software version 3.0

This grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license, for the duration of the copyright to do the following:

• Reproduce the original work in copies, alone or as part of a collective work
• Create derivative work based upon the original work. Translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrage the original work 
• Distribute
• Perform
• Display