Esta es una lista de paquetes de software notables que se publicaron bajo una licencia de software propietario, pero luego se lanzaron como software gratuito y de código abierto , o en el dominio público .
En algunos casos, la empresa continúa publicando versiones propietarias junto con la versión no propietaria.
Título | Lanzamiento original | Lanzamiento con licencia | Relicencia inicial gratuita | Notas |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adobe Flex | 2004 | 2007 | MPL | Desde que se renombró a Apache Flex y se cambió a Apache License 2.0 |
AdvFS | Decenio de 1990 | 2008 | GPL v2 | HP abrió AdvFS desde Tru64 UNIX. |
AOLserver | 1999 | GPL / MPL modificado | [1] | |
Apache Derby | 1996 | 2004 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | Sistema de gestión de bases de datos relacionales originalmente llamado Cloudscape ; lanzado como software gratuito y de código abierto por IBM en 2004 y donado a la Apache Software Foundation |
Apache Wave | 2009 | 2009 | Licencia Apache | Anteriormente Google Wave . [2] |
Motor de juego Apus | 2008 | 2020 | Licencia BSD de 3 cláusulas | Lanzado al público por el desarrollador después de alcanzar un objetivo de Patreon . [3] El código fuente de Astral Heroes (uno de los juegos que usa el motor) fue entregado a los usuarios. [4] |
Astrólogo | 1991 | 2015 | GPL v2 + / permiso personalizado | Siempre ha sido freeware y de código abierto , pero tenía una atribución personalizada que exigía una licencia permisiva. |
Átomo | 2014 | 2014 | Licencia MIT | [5] |
Compilador BDS C | 1979 | 2002 | Dominio publico | Publicado por autor |
BitKeeper | 2000 | 2016 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | |
Bitstream Vera (fuente) | 2003 | personalizado | A través de los esfuerzos de Bitstream y la Fundación GNOME | |
Licuadora | 1996 | 2003 | GPL v2 + | |
BlitzBASIC (Blitz3D, BlitzPlus, BlitzMax) | 2001 | 2014 | Licencia zlib | BlitzPlus se lanzó como código abierto el 28 de abril de 2014 bajo la licencia zlib en github.com . [6] [7] Blitz3D siguió el 3 de agosto de 2014. [8] [9] BlitzMax fue de código abierto el 21 de septiembre de 2015. [10] |
Motor Cafu | 2000 | 2009 | GPL v3 | Publicado originalmente bajo la GPLv3 (con una opción para una licencia comercial ), [11] en 2016 fue re-licenciada bajo la Licencia MIT . [12] |
Catacumba | 1989 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
Catacumba II | 1991 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
Abismo de catacumba | 1992 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
Armagedón de catacumba | 1992 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
Catacumba 3D | 1991 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
C * Base | Los ochenta | 2003 | GPL v2 + | |
CDE | 1993 | 2012 | LGPL v2 + | [14] [15] |
ChakraCore | 2009 | 2016 | MIT | El 13 de enero de 2016, Microsoft lanzó ChakraCore bajo la licencia MIT en GitHub . [16] ChakraCore es esencialmente el mismo que el motor Chakra que alimenta el navegador Microsoft Edge , pero con enlaces independientes de la plataforma, es decir, sin las interfaces específicas utilizadas dentro de la plataforma de la aplicación universal de Windows. [17] |
Esfinge de CMU | 2000 | Licencia de estilo BSD personalizada | [18] [19] | |
CódigoXL | 2016 | Licencia MIT | ||
Coherente | 1980 | 2015 | Licencia BSD de 3 cláusulas | [20] |
Familia CP / M | 1974 | 1997, [21] [22] [23] 2001, [24] [25] [26] [27] 2014 [28] | [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] | |
Cuneiforme | 1993 | 2008 | BSD | Software de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres |
Dink Smallwood | 1998 | 2003 | zlib -like | Algunos datos del juego (por ejemplo, sonidos) no se publican con una licencia gratuita. [29] |
Motor Doom | 1993 | 1999 | GPL v2 | Publicado originalmente bajo una licencia restrictiva el 23 de diciembre de 1997. [30] El código del juego para Heretic y Hexen: Beyond Heretic (otros dos juegos que usan el motor Doom) también fue lanzado bajo la GPL. [31] |
DOS.MASTER | finales de la década de 1980 | 2000 | software de dominio público | DOS.MASTER es un programa para Apple II ordenadores que permite de Apple DOS 3.3 programas para ser colocado en un disco duro o de 3,5 pulgadas disquete y ejecutar desde ProDOS . Escrito por Glen Bredon como un programa comercial a fines de la década de 1980, fue liberado al dominio público por su familia después de la muerte del autor. [32] |
Duke Nukem 3D | 1996 | 2003 | GPL | Solo código de juego, sin datos, sin motor. |
Etherpad | 2008 | 2009 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | De código abierto después de ser comprado por Google |
Motor de almacenamiento extensible | 1994 | 2021 | Licencia MIT | |
Halcón | 2007 | GPL | [33] | |
Gerente de FAR | 1996 | 2007 | BSD | Versión 2.0 lanzada como código abierto. |
Administrador de archivos (Windows) | 1990 | Abril de 2018 | MIT | El 6 de abril 2018, Microsoft lanzó binarios y el código fuente , licenciado bajo la licencia MIT , por una versión mejorada del Administrador de archivos capaz de ejecutarse en Windows 10. [34] [35] Esta versión incluye cambios tales como la capacidad de compilación en las versiones modernas de Visual Studio, la capacidad de compilar como una aplicación de 64 bits y numerosas mejoras de usabilidad. [35] |
Filetes de pescado | 1998 | 2002 | GPL | |
Administrador de descargas gratis | 2003 | 2007 | GPL | Gratis desde la versión 2.5 [36] |
FoundationDB | 2013 | 2018 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | Apple Inc. adquirió la empresa fundadora en marzo de 2015 y suspendió las descargas del software. [37] En abril de 2018, Apple abrió la base de datos y reanudó las descargas. [38] |
Fabricante de juegos | 1991 | 2014 | Licencia MIT | Después de algunas consultas con la base de usuarios, el 12 de julio de 2014, el codificador original Andy Stone lanzó el código fuente de Game-Maker 3.0 en GitHub , bajo la licencia MIT . [39] |
GGPO | 2006 | 2019 | Licencia MIT | El 9 de octubre de 2019, Cannon anunció en su cuenta de Twitter que GGPO ahora era de código abierto y estaba disponible bajo la licencia MIT . [40] |
Fantasma | 2010 | 2018 | Licencia pública de Mozilla 2.0 | Cliqz GmbH adquirió Ghostery de Evidon, Inc. en febrero de 2017. [41] El software de Ghostery fue de código abierto el 8 de marzo de 2018. [42] |
Familia GEM | 1985 | 1999 [43] | GPL [43] | El desarrollo continuó como OpenGEM y FreeGEM . [43] |
Gentium (fuente) | 2002 | 2005 | OFL | A través de los esfuerzos de SIL International |
Gigablast | 2000 | 2013 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | [44] |
Falla | 2011 | 2013 | Software de dominio público ( CC0 ) | Después de que Glitch se cerró oficialmente el 9 de diciembre de 2012, [45] la obra de arte y la mayor parte del código fuente se publicaron bajo la licencia de dominio público -como Creative Commons CC0 el 18 de noviembre de 2013. [46] [47] El 9 de diciembre de 2014, un proyecto de fans para relanzar Glitch bajo el nombre de Eleven comenzó las pruebas alfa . [48] |
GLX | Decenio de 1990 | 2008 | Licencia SGI FreeB | [49] |
GW-BÁSICO | 1983 | 2020 | Licencia MIT | [50] |
Motor de juego de Haaf | 2004 | 2005 | LGPL v2 | Publicado originalmente bajo LPGL el 25 de noviembre de 2005, [51] al año siguiente fue re-licenciado bajo la Licencia zlib . [52] El 7 de agosto de 2011, también se publicó el código fuente utilizado para los puertos Mac OS X y Linux de Hammerfight . [53] |
HoverRace | 1996 | 2006 | BSD | |
Hovertank 3D | 1991 | 2014 | GPL v2 | [13] |
ILWIS | 1988 | 2007 | GPL | Publicado como software gratuito y de código abierto por ITC |
id Tech 3 | 1999 | 2005 | GPL v2 | La versión lanzada originalmente es el código fuente de Quake III Arena ; También se lanzó el código fuente de otros juegos de id Tech 3, como Return to Castle Wolfenstein , Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast , Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory y Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy . [54] [55] |
id Tech 4 | 2004 | 2011 | GPL v3 | La versión publicada es el código fuente de Doom 3 ; en 2012 también se lanzó el código fuente de Doom 3: BFG Edition . [56] Se tuvieron que hacer cambios en el código para evitar el uso del reverso patentado de Carmack . |
Motor Jaiku | 2006 | 2009 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | [57] |
Java | 1995 | 2006-2007 | GPL | El 13 de noviembre de 2006, Sun Microsystems lanzó gran parte de Java como software libre bajo los términos de la Licencia Pública General GNU (GPL). El 8 de mayo de 2007, Sun finalizó el proceso, haciendo que todo el código central de Java sea gratuito y de código abierto, además de una pequeña parte del código del que Sun no tenía los derechos de autor. [58] |
Puente 2.0 | 2007 | 2008 | GPL | Anunciado públicamente el 29 de septiembre de 2008 [59] |
KornShell | mil novecientos ochenta y dos | 2000 | personalizado; ahora CPL | |
Le Lisp | 1981 | 2020 | BSD de 2 cláusulas | |
LightZone | 2005 | 2012 | BSD de 3 cláusulas | La empresa quebró |
Maratón 2: Durandal | 1995 | 2000 | GPL | Solo el código se publicó bajo la GPL. Ahora conocido como Aleph One |
Mari0 | 2012 | 2018 | Licencia MIT | Desarrollado utilizando el marco LÖVE y originalmente disponible bajo CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 , se volvió a obtener la licencia del MIT el 29 de septiembre de 2018. [60] |
MiniPanzer y MegaPanzer | GPL | El código fuente de los programas fue publicado como GPL en 2009 por su autor, quien retuvo los derechos de autor. [61] | ||
MINIX | 1987 | 2000 | BSD | |
Motivo | Los ochenta | 2012 | LGPL v2 + | [62] |
Tipos móviles | 2001 | 2007 | GPL | Software de weblog |
Familia MP / M | 1979 | 1997, [21] [22] 2001 [24] [25] [26] [27] | [21] [22] [24] [25] [26] [27] | |
MS-DOS 1.25 y 2.0 | 1982/1983 | 2018 | Licencia MIT | Originalmente subido por el Computer History Museum en 2014 bajo una licencia no comercial, [63] el 28 de septiembre de 2018, Microsoft cargó el código fuente en GitHub bajo la licencia MIT . [64] |
.NET Framework (la mayoría de los componentes) | 2002 | 2014 | Licencia MIT , Licencia Apache 2.0, Licencia BSD | A partir de 2014, Microsoft lanzó la mayor parte de su software de ecosistema .NET ( .NET Micro Framework , .NET Compiler Platform , ASP.NET , Entity Framework , NuGet , etc.) bajo licencias FOSS y cambió el código a un repositorio de GitHub . [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] |
NetBeans | 1997 | 2007 | GPL , CDDL | Un entorno de desarrollo integrado (IDE) para Java y otros lenguajes de programación |
Servidor empresarial Netscape | 2009 | BSD | Sun Microsystems lo obtuvo de código abierto. [77] | |
Navegador / Comunicador Netscape | 1994 | 1998 | MPL | Ver Mozilla [78] [79] |
Implementación de muestra de OpenGL | 1992 | 2008 | Licencia SGI FreeB | [49] |
Sistema de sonido abierto | 1992 | 2007 | GPL , CDDL | |
OpenWRT | ? | 2003 | GPL | Como Linksys construyó el firmware para su enrutador inalámbrico WRT54G también a partir del código GPL 'ed, [80] se les pidió que pusieran el código fuente a disposición en julio de 2003. [81] [82] |
Copiloto de rendimiento | 1993 | 1999 | GPL , LGPL | |
PhysX | 2001 | 2018 | Licencia BSD de 3 cláusulas | [83] |
Set de construcción de pinball | 1982/1983 | 2013 | Licencia MIT | El código fuente para el puerto Atari 800 fue publicado por Bill Budget el 12 de febrero de 2013 luego de que Electronic Arts recuperara los disquetes originales que contenían el código fuente. [84] El 24 de febrero de 2013, se publicó el código fuente de la versión original de Apple II . |
Plan 9 de Bell Labs | 1992/1995/2000 | 2021 | Licencia MIT | Se aplica a las cuatro versiones originales de Bell Labs . [85] Las dos primeras ediciones no se lanzaron al público en general. La tercera edición fue lanzada en 2000 bajo la licencia Plan 9, una licencia no aprobada por la Free Software Foundation y la Open Source Initiative . [86] [87] La Cuarta Edición fue lanzada en 2002 bajo la Lucent Public License , una licencia de software libre y de código abierto, [88] y renovada a GNU GPL v2 (solamente) el 8 de febrero de 2014 por la Universidad de California, Berkeley con el permiso de Alcatel-Lucent , los titulares de los derechos de autor en ese momento. [89] |
Potencia Shell | 2006 | Agosto de 2016 | Licencia MIT | Fuente abierta de Microsoft en agosto de 2016 en GitHub . [90] |
Qt | 1991 | 1999 | QPL | Lanzado por primera vez como código abierto bajo la QPL. Posteriormente lanzado como GPL. Qt 4.5 y posteriores se lanzan bajo la LGPL. Hasta 2005, la versión de Windows solo estaba bajo una licencia propietaria. |
Motor Quake II | 1997 | 2001 | GPL v2 | |
Motor de terremoto | 1996 | 1999 | GPL v2 | Las fuentes del mapa también se publicaron bajo la GPL en 2006. En 2000, el código del juego para Hexen II (otro juego que usa el motor Quake) también se publicó bajo la GPL. [91] |
RakNet | 2003 | 2014 | Licencia BSD de 2 cláusulas | Oculus VR adquirió RakNet y lo abrió de código poco después. [92] |
Rebol | 1997 | 2012 | Licencia Apache 2.0 | Tras la discusión con Lawrence Rosen , [93] el intérprete Rebol versión 3 fue lanzado bajo la licencia Apache 2.0 el 12 de diciembre de 2012. [94] |
Ascenso de la Tríada | 1994 | 2002 | GPL | Solo el código se publicó bajo la GPL. |
Ryzom | 2004 | 2010 | AGPL | [95] [96] |
Sandboxie | 2004 | 2020 | GPL v3 | La versión 5.40 final fue una versión de solo código fuente, [97] publicada un año después de que Sophos anunciara la interrupción del desarrollo. [98] |
Cliente de Second Life | 2003 | 2007 | GPL v2 | |
Segunda realidad | 1993 | 2013 | Software de dominio público ( sin licencia ) | Publicado por Jussi Laakkonen, ex miembro de Future Crew , para celebrar el 20 aniversario del lanzamiento original. [99] |
SimCity | 1989 | 2007 | GPL v3 | Versión gratuita lanzada como ' Micropolis ' [100] |
Solar2D | 2009 | 2019 | GPL v3 | Publicado originalmente bajo la GPLv3 (con una opción para una licencia comercial ), [101] al año siguiente fue re-licenciado bajo la Licencia MIT . [102] |
Solaris | 1989 | 2005 | CDDL | Versión gratuita lanzada como OpenSolaris |
Soldat | 2002 | 2020 | Licencia MIT / CC BY 4.0 | Originalmente limitado al motor del juego, [103] activos siguieron poco después bajo CC-BY 4.0. [104] |
Sistema de control de código fuente | 1972 | 2006 | CDDL | |
StarOffice | 1986 | 2000 | LGPL / SISSL [105] | Free version released as OpenOffice.org, later released only under the LGPL. (OpenOffice.org was discontinued in 2011, but forks—most prominently LibreOffice (licensed under the LGPL) and Apache OpenOffice (licensed under the Apache License)—have become its dominant successors.) StarOffice was still released separately under a proprietary license, using mostly the same code, until its discontinuing in 2011; Sun required all contributors to the main OpenOffice.org project assign joint copyright to Sun. |
Star Ruler 2[106] | 2015 | 2018[106] | MIT / CC BY-NC | Source code and assets re-released to the public (except for music, which is kept proprietary). The assets are under a non-free CC BY-NC license. |
Stride | 2014 | 2014 | GPL v3 | Originally released under the GPLv3 (with an option for a commercial license),[107] it became proprietary in 2017,[108] and it was re-licensed to the MIT License in 2018.[109] |
Symbian platform | 2010 | EPL | ||
Synfig | 2001 | 2005 | GPL | Some more information is available on the Synfig history page. |
Tesseract OCR | 1985 | 2005 | Apache License 2.0 | Released as free and open-source software by HP and UNLV |
TextSecure | 2010 | 2011 | GPLv3 | Since renamed to Signal |
Torque 2D/iTorque 2D | 2006/2009 | 2013 | MIT License | A combination of Torque 2D and iTorque,[110] named Torque 2D MIT, was released under the MIT License by GarageGames.[111] The source code for Larva Mortus, a game using the engine, was released on 1 May 2009 under a non-free non-commercial license.[112] |
Torque 3D | 2001 | 2012 | MIT License | Developed for Tribes 2. Released as free and open-source software by GarageGames.[113] |
TurboCASH | 1985 | 2003 | GPL | |
ViewMAX | 1990 | 1999[43] | GPL[43] | |
Visual Studio Code | 2015 | 2015[114] | MIT | |
Warzone 2100 | 1999 | 2004 | GPL | Video game by Eidos Interactive |
Watcom C compiler | 1988 | 2003 | Sybase Open Watcom Public License | Free version released as Open Watcom under a license which is considered non-free by the GNU project[115] but acceptable by the OSI. |
Windows Calculator | 1985 | 2019 | MIT License | Windows 1.0, released in November 1985, included the first iteration of Windows Calculator. In March 2019, Microsoft released the source code of Windows Calculator under the MIT License.[116] |
Windows Console | 2019 | MIT License | In 2019, the Windows Console infrastructure was open-sourced under the MIT License, alongside Windows Terminal.[117] | |
Windows Live Writer | 2012 | 2015 | MIT License | An open source fork of Windows Live Writer was released as Open Live Writer by Microsoft on 9 December 2015.[118] |
Wintermute Engine | 2003 | 2009 | LGPL v3+ | Source code released upon request under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (or any later version) with the release of the version 1.8.9.[119] Publicly available under the terms of the MIT License since March 23, 2013.[120] The source code for The White Chamber, a game using the engine, was released on 30 June 2008 under a non-free CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK license.[121] |
Wire | 2014 | 2016 | GPLv3 | |
Worms? | 1983 | 2021 | MIT License | [122] |
XMind | 2007 | 2008 | EPL and LGPL | Mindmapping software based on the Eclipse RCP |
ZFS | 200? | 2005 | CDDL | Released by Sun Microsystems under an open-source license in 2005.[123] Due to a FSF announced license incompatibility of the GPL with the CDDL ZFS wasn't directly integrated in Linux, but in the BSDs or MacOS due to their permissive licensed kernel which offers better license compatibility. After the later owner Oracle didn't released after version 28, the community forked to OpenZFS.[124] |
See also
- History of free and open-source software
- List of commercial video games with available source code
- List of free and open-source software packages
- List of free and open-source web applications
- List of proprietary source-available software
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