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LICENSE TERMS SUMMARY: The current CCD CopyWrite license text is written with the intent of being understandable to the layman while still providing adequate legal protection and clarity for the terms of the license. The latter goal can interfere with the former, however, and as such a shorter summary of the intent of the license terms is provided here:IN BRIEF: This license is meant to mimic the "public domain", a concept particular to certain countries, which means that no copyright or patent claims are enforced. This is modified by two points:Unlike the public domain, nothing licensed CCD CopyWrite can be subsumed under terms of a contrary copyright license.Legally enforced "reminders" to avoid plagiarism or misattributio...
MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License) Mitre no longer recommends use of this license Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW) License Agreement General Redistribution of the CVW software or derived works must reproduce MITRE's copyright designation and this License in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Copyright © 1994-1999. The MITRE Corporation (http://www.mitre.org/). All Rights Reserved. The terms "MITRE" and "The MITRE Corporation" are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software or in redistribution of this software in any form. The terms "CVW" and "Collaborat...
Free Art license [ Copyleft Attitude ] Version 1.1 Preamble: With this Free Art license, you are given the right to freely copy, distribute and transform the artworks in the respect of the rights of the author. Far from ignoring the rights of the author, this license recognizes them and protects them. It reformulates their principle while making it possible for the public to make a creative use of the works of art. Whereas the use that is being made of the right to litterary and artistic property resulted in a restriction of the public's access to the works of art, the goal of the Free Art license is to support it. The intention is to open the access and to authorize the use of the resources of an artwork by the greatest number of pe...
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 werken digital. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the disclaimer that follows these conditions in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The name "SAXPath" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission. For writte...
Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (ECL-2.0) Version 2.0, April 2007http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ The Educational Community License version 2.0 ("ECL") consists of the Apache 2.0 license, modified to change the scope of the patent grant in section 3 to be specific to the needs of the education communities using this license. The original Apache 2.0 license can be found at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION 1. Definitions. "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document. "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner th...