⚡ Open-Source Licenses in New Zealand

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

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, open-source licenses are detected on 0.3% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top licenses on websites in New Zealand in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Creative Commons, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 79.5% share.
It is followed by GNU with 18.2% and BSD with 2.3%.

Creative Commons 79.5%
GNU 18.2%
BSD 2.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top licenses that are more popular in New Zealand than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. BSD ^(-2)

✨ Top Licenses

Below is a more detailed list of 3 licenses used on sites from New Zealand, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Creative Commons Mountain View, California, United States Creative Commons licenses are a set of standardized copyright licenses that let creators share their works with the public while clearly defining how others may use, remix, or redistribute them under specific conditions.	79.5%
2	GNU Boston, Massachusetts, United States The GNU General Public Licenses are a family of free, copyleft software licenses created to guarantee users the freedom to run, study, share, and modify software while ensuring those freedoms are preserved when the software is distributed.	18.2%
3	BSD Boulder, Colorado, United States BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses that allow software to be used, modified, and redistributed with minimal restrictions.	2.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Licenses in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 14,642 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 6 licenses across the web.
Of these, 3 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on June 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.