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Adobe Systems Incorporated(r) Source Code License Agreement Copyright(c) 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Please read this Source Code License Agreement carefully before using the source code. Adobe Systems Incorporated grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license, to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute this source code and such derivative works in source or object code form without any attribution requirements. The name "Adobe Systems Incorporated" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from the source code without prior written permission. You agree to indemnify, hold ha...
NETSCAPE PUBLIC LICENSEVersion 1.0 1. Definitions. 1.1. ``Contributor'' means each entity that creates or contributes to the creation of Modifications. 1.2. ``Contributor Version'' means the combination of the Original Code, prior Modifications used by a Contributor, and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3. ``Covered Code'' means the Original Code or Modifications or the combination of the Original Code and Modifications, in each case including portions thereof. 1.4. ``Electronic Distribution Mechanism'' means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.5. ``Executable'' means C...
POV-Ray Licence Agreement GENERAL LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PERSONAL USE Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) Version 3.6 License and Terms & Conditions of Use version of 1 February 2005 (also known as POVLEGAL.DOC) Please read through the terms and conditions of this license carefully. This license is a binding legal agreement between you, the 'User' (an individual or single entity) and Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. ACN 105 891 870 (herein also referred to as the "Company"), a company incorporated in the state of Victoria, Australia, for the product known as the "Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer", also referred to herein as 'POV-Ray'. YOUR ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THE DISCLAIMER OF WARR...
Contents Preamble Warranty Distribution Notes LPPL Version 1.0 1999-03-01 Copyright 1999 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but modification is not allowed. PREAMBLE The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the license under which the base LaTeX distribution is distributed. As described below you may use this licence for any software that you wish to distribute. It may be particularly suitable if your software is TeX related (such as a LaTeX package file) but it may be used for any software, even if it is unrelated to TeX. To use this license, the files of your distribution ...
Libre Commons Res Communes License The commons is usually defined as that which is shared communally with others. This can, for example, be a resource, such as land or water, which is owned by the members of the community. The commons has traditionally been limited to a local community right and to a physical resource, such as a forest. But it has also been used to refer to the space of intellectual thought, ideas and concepts (e.g., 'ideas commons', an 'innovation commons', an 'intellectual commons', a 'digital commons', an 'e-commons', 'the public domain', 'Intellectual Space' and so on). The Libre Commons i^e^ Communes Licence commits the work that is inscribed with this Res Communes license to the shared common that all ...