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The Sleepycat License Copyright (c) 1990-1999 Sleepycat Software. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any accompanying software th...
Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the 2-clause BSDL (see the file BSDL), or the conditions below: 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing the author to include your modifications in the software. ...
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 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 C...
Before we get to the text of the license, lets just review what the license says in simple terms: It allows you to: * freely download and use ImageMagick software, in whole or in part, for personal, company internal, or commercial purposes; * use ImageMagick software in packages or distributions that you create; * link against a library under a different license; * link code under a different license against a library under this license; * merge code into a work under a different license; * extend patent grants to any code using code under this license; * and extend patent protection. It forbids you to: * redistribute any piece of ImageMagick-originated software...
Condor Public License Version 1.1, October 30, 2003 Copyright © 1990-2006 Condor Team, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. All Rights Reserved. For more information contact: Condor Team, Attention: Professor Miron Livny, Dept of Computer Sciences, 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706-1685, (608) 262-0856 or miron@cs.wisc.edu. This software referred to as the Condor® Version 6.x software ("Software") was developed by the Condor Project, Condor Team, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the authority of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and includes voluntary contributions made to the Condor Project ("Copyright Holders and Contributors ...