Best MIT License Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

GNU Affero General Public License. Strong license for applications designed to guarentee user freedoms to access, modify, and redistribute server-side code.

Also known as the "2-clause" BSD license, this is a simplified version of an open source license created at the University of California Berkley.

High performance web components for SaaS apps - including Gantt, Scheduler, Grid, Calendar and Kanban widgets. Seamless integration with React, Vue, Angular or plain JS apps.

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The Creative Commons is a collection of licenses that allow content creators to adjust the restrictions that they place on their work.

Created for the GNU project, the GNU General Public License version 2 is the most popular free software license.

The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright monopoly interest in software you've written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain.

Open Source

Legally read research papers behind paywalls.

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles.

It provides mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers

Open Science Framework provides project management with collaborators, and project sharing with the public.

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Cron Calendar.

Cal.com (formerly Calendso) is the open source Calendly alternative.

Open Source

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