The Top 5 Open Source Licenses

GNU General Public License 2.0
GNU General Public License is a free software licence. This is the most widely used licence in the world. The percentage of using this licence is 25% which is greater than any other open source licence. This licence provides their user freedom to use, share and modify the software. The software which provides these types of freedom is called free software. The user of this licence is individual organizations and companies all over the world. A very important aspect of this software licence is that it provides freedom to their user to cooperate. It allows the user to share their thoughts for fixing bugs and increase the functionality of the software.

MIT License
MIT License is a free software licence. This licence was originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It provides permissive free software licence freedom. The MIT Licence provides many rights for end-users. It provides the end-user freedom to copy, modify, merge, distribute, publish, uses,sub-licence and sell the
software. The percentage of using this licence is 19.3%. This percentage is less than GNU General Public Licence and greater than all other licence percentages. This licence can be used with the combination of GP Licence and provide redistribution with software that uses MIT Licence.

Apache License 2.0
Apache License is a free software licence recognize by open source. It is a very popular and widely deployed free software licence written by Apache Software Foundation(ASF). This licence needed the preservation of disclaimer and copyrights notice. Apache Licence also provides freedom to the user of the software. The user of the software modifies it, distribute it and distribute a modified version of the software without any condition of royalties. This licence exercise the patent right and modification are marked clearly as being the work of the modifier. The licence cannot use any trademarks which belong to the licensor. The percentage of using this licence is approximately 16.23%.

GNU General Public License 3.0
GNU General Public License 3.0 is a free software licence. This licence is free and copyleft licence for the software. This licence can also be used for another type of work in addition to software. It provides the guarantee to share and change all version of the program. This licence provides different types of freedom to their user. It provides the freedom to use software for any purpose, customize the software according to your needs, freedom to share the software with your friends, relatives etc and provide the freedom to share the changes which you made. The percentage of using this licence is approximately 10.3%.

BSD License 2.0 (3-clause, New or Revised)
BSD Licence is a free software licence for computer software.BSD licence was developed at the University of California at Berkeley. It allows redistribution and uses in source and binary forms with or without modification. By using this you can do unlimited redistribution according to your need but you must care about copyright notices and
the licence disclaimers are maintained. The percentage of using this licence is approximately 6.5%.