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Filter list licenses

twonfov edited this page Apr 12, 2024 · 18 revisions

An overview of licenses of filter lists currently found in uBlock Origin (uBO).

Only lists that are enabled by default in uBO are bundled with it, all others are downloaded from their respective hosts only when they have been enabled.

"Some of the 3rd-party filters (simple data files) in this software are under non-free licenses. However, it is not clear that the works in question are actually subject to copyright or that the licensing terms could apply. As such, we urge you to use and redistribute those filters with caution that someone may try to claim copyright on the works." - Joshua Gay, Licensing & Compliance Manager, Free Software Foundation

Filter List Default GPL Creative Commons Public Domain Other Undetermined
uBlock filters - Ads X GPL3
uBlock filters - Badware risks X GPL3
uBlock filters - Privacy X GPL3
uBlock filters - Quick Fixes X GPL3
uBlock filters – Resource abuse X GPL3
uBlock filters - Unbreak X GPL3
uBlock Lite filters X (uBOL) GPL3
uBlock filters – Annoyances GPL3
uBlock filters - LAN Block GPL3
EasyList‎ X GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
EasyPrivacy‎ X GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
Online Malicious URL Blocklist X CC0 1.0
Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list‎ X McRae GPL, non-commercial
AdGuard Mobile Ads X (Mobile) GPL3
Phishing URL Blocklist CC0 1.0
PUP Domains Blocklist CC0 1.0
EasyList Cookie GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
Fanboy's Social CC BY 3.0
Fanboy's Annoyance CC BY 3.0
Anti-Facebook CC BY 3.0
AdGuard Base GPL3
AdGuard Tracking Protection GPL3
AdGuard URL Tracking Protection GPL3
AdGuard Annoyances GPL3
AdGuard Social Media GPL3
Dan Pollock’s hosts file‎ Informal license, attribution, non-commercial
ALB: Adblock List for Albania‎ Unlicense
ARA: Liste AR‎ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
BGR: Bulgarian Adblock list‎ X
CHN: AdGuard Chinese (中文) GPL3
CZE, SVK: EasyList Czech and Slovak‎ CC BY-SA 4.0
DEU: EasyList Germany‎ GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
EST: Eesti saitidele kohandatud filter‎ CC0 1.0
FIN: Adblock List for Finland‎ Unlicense
FRA: AdGuard Français GPL3
GRC: Greek AdBlock Filter‎ CC BY-SA 4.0
HRV, SRB: Dandelion Sprout's Serbo-Croatian filters Dandelicence, attribution, non-commercial, good intent
HUN: hufilter‎ CC BY 4.0
IDN, MYS: ABPindo GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
IND: IndianList GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
IRN: PersianBlocker AGPL3
ISL: Icelandic ABP List‎ X
ISR: EasyList Hebrew‎ GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
ITA: EasyList Italy‎ GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
JPN: AdGuard Japanese GPL3
KOR: List-KR GPL3
LTU: EasyList Lithuania‎ GPL3
LVA: Latvian List‎ CC BY-SA 4.0
MKD: Macedonian adBlock Filters‎ MIT
NLD: EasyDutch‎ GPL3
NOR, DNK, ISL: Dandelion Sprouts nordiske filtre‎ Dandelicence, attribution, non-commercial, good intent
POL: Oficjalne Polskie Filtry do AdBlocka, uBlocka Origin i AdGuarda‎ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
POL: Oficjalne polskie filtry przeciwko alertom o Adblocku‎ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
ROU: Romanian Ad (ROad) Block List Light MIT
RUS: RU AdList CC BY 3.0
SPA, POR: AdGuard Spanish/Portuguese GPL3
SPA: EasyList Spanish GPL3 CC BY-SA 3.0
SVN: Slovenian List Unlicense
SWE: Frellwit's Swedish Filter GPL3
THA: EasyList Thailand Apache 2.0
TUR: AdGuard Turkish‎ GPL3
VIE: ABPVN List‎ GPL3

GNU General Public License 3.0 (GPL3) - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 (AGPL3) - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Creative Commons - Public Domain Dedication 1.0 (CC0 1.0) - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Unlicense - https://unlicense.org/

Apache 2.0 - https://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

MIT - https://mit-license.org/

McRae GPL - https://pgl.yoyo.org/license/
Dandelicence - https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LICENSE.md

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