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Additional information and perspectives on free and open source software licenses may be found on the following pages:
Additional information and perspectives on free and open source software licenses may be found on the following pages:


*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_licence Wikipedia - Free software license]
*[[w:Free software licence]]
*[[w:Comparison of free and open-source software licenses|Wikipedia - Comparison of free and open-source software licenses]]
*[[w:Comparison of free and open-source software licenses]]
*[https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html - A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects]
*[https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects]
*[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html GNU Project - Various Licenses and Comments about Them]
*[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html GNU Project - Various Licenses and Comments about Them]
*[https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ Debian - License information]
*[https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ Debian - License information]

Revision as of 22:18, 27 February 2016

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Notes: perhaps not all links are needed (Discuss in Talk:Licenses)

The most commonly used licenses covering software packages on an Arch Linux system are found in the /usr/share/licenses/common directory. Additional less common licenses for software packages are found in the /usr/share/licenses directory, in a subdirectory named for the software package in question. This page provides information about the most common licenses found in Arch Linux.

Additional information and perspectives on free and open source software licenses may be found on the following pages:

See also Arch packaging standards#Licenses and PKGBUILD#license.