Free Licenses

How free are the “freest” software licenses?

This monograph work by Adrian N. Iliev (www.Advocati.org) explores the most popular and “freest” software licenses. It compares them thoroughly and methodically, detailing what rights, obligations, and restrictions each license applies upon the software.

We hope this work could be useful to software developers, free software activists, lawyers, and software users. It can be used as a tool to compare objectively free licenses, so a developer may apply the most appropriate license for their work, and an user could make a more informative choice when selecting what software to install and use.

The monograph is freely available under the free GNU-FDLv1.3 license. You are free to distribute and edit the book (under the terms of the license). You can download it from the link below:

PDF version (Bulgarian language)