Welcome to CopyLeftLicense.com! Here you will find an archive of all the copyleft and open source licenses that have been published in the past. From Beerware Licensing, where you need to buy a beer for the open source programmer if you see them in a bar, to the fine-tuned and legally-curated Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License, we have it all. By knowing where we've come from, we might be able to learn where to go!
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Version 6.6, April 2013 OPEN CASCADE releases and makes publicly available the source code of the software Open CASCADE Technology to the free software development community under the terms and conditions of this license. It is not the purpose of this license to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this license has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is w...
AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, November 2007 Copyright © 2007 Affero Inc. 510 Third Street - Suite 225, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA This is version 2 of the Affero General Public License. It gives each licensee permission to distribute the Program or a work based on the Program (as defined in version 1 of the Affero GPL) under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or any later version. If the Program was licensed under version 1 of the Affero GPL "or any later version", no additional obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder of the Program as a result of a licensee's choice to follow this version 2 of the Affero GPL.
JasPer License Version 2.0 Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Michael David Adams Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Image Power, Inc. Copyright (c) 1999-2000 The University of British Columbia All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person (the "User") obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 1. The above copyright notices and this permission notice (which includes the disclaimer below) shall be i...
VOSTROM Public License for Open Source Copyright (c) 2007 VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. This VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. (VOSTROM) Distribution (code and documentation) is made available to the open source community as a public service by VOSTROM. Contact VOSTROM at license@vostrom.com for information on other licensing arrangements (e.g. for use in proprietary applications). Under this license, this Distribution may be modified and the original version and modified versions may be copied, distributed, publicly displayed and performed provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Modified versions are distributed with source code and documentation and with permission for others to use any code and documentation (whether in original or m...
CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS LICENSE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. CREATIVE COMMONS PROVIDES THIS INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. CREATIVE COMMONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ITS USE. License THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE"). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED. BY ...