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BitTorrent Open Source License
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<h2 id="open-source-claims">Open Source claims</h2> <p>Although the license is derived from an OSI-approved license, this license hasn't been approved. Furthermore, the approved version of the Jabber licence is no longer used or recommended for use by its authors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>The <a href="/facts/Free_Software_Foundation/k0sBmw7y">Free Software Foundation</a> considers it to be a free software license, albeit one incompatible with the <a href="/facts/GNU_General_Public_License/S75KhLSX">GNU General Public License</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110809153637/http://www2.bittorrent.com/legal/bittorrent-open-source-license">Official license source hosted on the BitTorrent website</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080213154112/http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrent-open-source-license">Originally hosted official license source (Internet Archive)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"BitTorrent Open Source License - BitTorrent". 9 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2 April 2019. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110809153637/http://www2.bittorrent.com/legal/bittorrent-open-source-license" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110809153637/http://www2.bittorrent.com/legal/bittorrent-open-source-license</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"BitTorrent". 16 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-07-16. Retrieved 2 April 2019. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060716194903/http://bittorrent.com/trademark.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20060716194903/http://bittorrent.com/trademark.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Jabber Open Source License". Open Source Initiative. Retrieved 2006-07-05. <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/jabberpl.php" target="_blank">http://opensource.org/licenses/jabberpl.php</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Licenses - Free Software Foundation". Fsf.org. Retrieved January 5, 2009. <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>