Editing The Open Source Definition (section)

==Compliant licenses==
The criteria are used by the OSI to approve certain licenses as compatible with the definition, and maintain a list of compliant licenses. New licenses have to submit a formal proposal that is discussed by the OSI mailing list before it is approved or rejected by the OSI board. Seven approved licenses are particularly recommended by the OSI as "popular, widely used, or having strong communities":<ref name="l662">{{cite book | last=Smith | first=P McCoy | title=Open Source Law, Policy and Practice | chapter=Copyright, Contract, and Licensing in Open Source | publisher=Oxford University PressOxford | date=2022 | isbn=978-0-19-886234-5 | doi=10.1093/oso/9780198862345.003.0003 | pages=108–111}}</ref>

*[[Apache License 2.0]]
*[[BSD licenses|BSD 3-Clause and BSD 2-Clause Licenses]]
*All versions of the [[GNU General Public License]]
*All versions of the [[GNU Lesser Public License]]
*[[MIT License]]
*[[Mozilla Public License]] 2.0
*[[Common Development and Distribution License]] (CDDL)
*[[Eclipse Public License]] version 2.0