⚡ Software Licenses in Spain

Software licenses are legal agreements that explain how software can be used, modified, and redistributed by others.

Some licenses allow almost complete freedom with few conditions (such as the MIT or BSD licenses), while others require that changes remain open to everyone (GNU General Public License), include rules for sharing under the same license (MPL), or focus on giving credit and choosing how the work is reused (Creative Commons).

According to our statistics, software licenses are used on 1.2% of websites from Spain.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top licenses on websites in Spain in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Creative Commons, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 92.7% share.
It is followed by GNU with 7.1% and MIT with 0.4%.

Creative Commons 92.7%
GNU 7.1%
MIT 0.4%
Apache 0.3%

✨ Top Licenses

Below is a more detailed list of all licenses used on sites from Spain, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Creative Commons Allow free distribution and specify public permissions for creative works under copyright law.	92.7%
2	GNUBoston, Massachusetts, United States General Public Licenses are a set of free, copyleft software licenses that require developers to make modified source code available to users.	7.1%
3	MIT A permissive software license that allows commercial use and does not require that the source code be made available to end users.	0.4%
4	ApacheWilmington, Delaware, United States A permissive software license that allows commercial use and does not require source code to be disclosed.	0.3%

Data updated September 28, 2025

When interpreting and using the results, please read our methodology and disclaimer.