List of formerly proprietary software Informatics Engineering 464 pasar.pts-ptn.net

This is a list of notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free software or open source software, or into the public domain.

In some cases, the company continues to publish proprietary releases alongside the non-proprietary version.

1 See also
2 References

List of formerly proprietary and closed-source software
Title	Original release	Relicensed release	New license	Notes
Adobe Flex	2004	2007	MPL
AdvFS	1990s	June 2008	GPL v2	HP opened up AdvFS from Tru64 UNIX.
Apache Derby	1996	August 2004	Apache License 2.0	Relational database management system originally called Cloudscape; released as free and open-source software by IBM in 2004 and donated to the Apache Software Foundation
BDS C Compiler	1979	2002	Public domain	Released by author
Bitstream Vera (font)	Unknown	2003	custom	Through the efforts of Bitstream and the GNOME Foundation
Blender	1996	2003	GPL
C*Base	1980s	2003	GPL
CuneiForm	1993	2008	BSD	Optical character recognition software
Duke Nukem 3D	1996	2003	GPL	Game code only, no data, no engine.
Doom engine	1993	1999	GPL	Code only. Originally released under a restrictive license in 1997
Fish Fillets	1998	2002	GPL
Free Download Manager (FDM)	2003	August 2007	GPL	Free since version 2.5^[1]
GEM	February 1985	April 1999	GPL	Development continued as OpenGEM and FreeGEM.
FAR Manager	October 1996	October 2007	BSD	Version 2.0 released as open source.
Gentium (font)	2002	2005	OFL	Through the efforts of SIL International
HoverRace	1996	2006	BSD
ILWIS	1988	2007	GPL	Released as free and open-source software by ITC
id Tech 2	1997	2001	GPL
id Tech 3	1999	2005	GPL
Java	1995	2006–2007	GPL	On 13 November 2006, Sun Microsystems released much of Java as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). On 8 May 2007 Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core code free and open source, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did not hold the copyright.^[2]
Jumper 2.0	2007	2008	GPL	Publicly announced on 29 September 2008,^[3]
Korn shell	1982	2000	custom; now CPL
LightZone	2005	2012	3-clause BSD	Company went out of business
Marathon 2: Durandal	1995	2000	GPL	Only the code was released under the GPL. Now known as Aleph One
MINIX	1987	2000	BSD
Movable Type	October 2001	December 2007	GPL	Weblog software
NetBeans	1997	October 2007	GPL, CDDL	An integrated development environment (IDE) for Java and other programming languages
Netscape Enterprise Server		January 2009	BSD	Sun Microsystems open sourced it.^[4]^{[dead link]}
Netscape Navigator/Communicator	1994	1998	MPL	See Mozilla
Open Sound System	1992	2007	GPL, CDDL
Performance Co-Pilot	1993	December 1999	GPL, LGPL
Qt	1991	1999	QPL	First released as open source under the QPL. Later released as GPL. Qt 4.5 and later are released under the LGPL. Until 2005 the Windows version was only under proprietary license.
Quake engine	1996	1999	GPL	The map sources were also released under the GPL in 2006.
Rise of the Triad	1994	2002	GPL	Only the code was released under the GPL.
Second Life client	2003	2007	GPL v2
SimCity	1989	2007	GPL v3	Free version released as 'Micropolis' ^[5]
Solaris	1989	2005	CDDL	Free version released as OpenSolaris
StarOffice	1986	2000	LGPL/SISSL	Free version released as OpenOffice.org, now released only under the LGPL). StarOffice is still released separately under a proprietary license, using mostly the same code; Sun requires all contributors to the main OpenOffice.org project assign joint copyright to Sun.
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
TurboCASH	April 1985	July 2003	GPL
Warzone 2100	March 1999	December 2004	GPL	Video game by Eidos Interactive
Watcom C compiler	1988	2003	Sybase Open Watcom Public License	Free version released as Open Watcom
XMind	2007	2008	EPL and LGPL	Mindmapping software based on the Eclipse RCP

References

^ Free Download Manager » Blog Archive » FDM 2.5 is released!
^ open.itworld.com - JAVAONE: Sun - The bulk of Java is open sourced
^ NEWS-Jumper_Networks_Releases_Jumper_2.0_Platform.pdf "Jumper Networks Press Release for Jumper 2.0". Jumper Networks, Inc.. 29 September 2008. http://www.jumpernetworks.com/ NEWS-Jumper_Networks_Releases_Jumper_2.0_Platform.pdf.
^ "http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/date/20090113". http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/date/20090113. Retrieved 2012-04-23.^{[dead link]}
^ "Micropolis Downloads". Donhopkins.com. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/. Retrieved 2012-04-23.

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