Licenses by Name

The following licenses have been approved by the OSI. The parenthesized expression following a license name is its SPDX short identifier (if one exists).

You can also view a list of open source licenses grouped by category, and licenses which have been superseded or retired.

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Submitted by administrator on Tue, 2008-07-29 13:28

Looking for the list of unique Open Source Software names (like Java, Eclipse, PHP, MySQL), not Open Source Software License Types(like Sun Public License, Common Public License, etc). Does OSI maintain such list or is there another organization or web source that maintains such list of actual Open Source Software names?

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