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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COPYRIGHT NOTICE These patterns and the generating sh script are Copyright (c) GMV 1991 These patterns were developed for internal GMV use and are made public in the hope that they will benefit others. Also, spreading these patterns throughout the Spanish-language TeX community is expected to provide back-benefits to GMV in that it can help keeping GMV in the mainstream of spanish users. However, this is given for free and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. Under no circumstances can Julio Sanchez, GMV, Jos'e A. Ma~nas or any agents or representatives thereof be held responsible for any errors in this software nor for any damages derived from its use, even in case any of the above has been notified of the possibility of such damages. If any...
This file is part of ecfonts version 1.0 Copyright notice to the ec fonts (c) Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 2012 J"org Knappen, Mainz (c) Copyright 1990, 1992 Norbert Schwarz, Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum C O P Y R I G H T (2012) This distribution is copyright 1990--2012 Norbert Schwarz and Joerg Knappen. WARRANTY There is NO WARRANTY for the ec fonts, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the authors provides the program `as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. S...
The "No problem Bugroff" license. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called. It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software. Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens. In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License) I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawye...
RECIPROCAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.3, February 1, 2006 Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Technical Pursuit Inc., All Rights Reserved. PREAMBLE This Preamble is intended to describe, in plain English, the nature, intent, and scope of this License. However, this Preamble is not a part of this License. The legal effect of this License is dependent only upon the terms of the License and not this Preamble. This License is based on the concept of reciprocity. In exchange for being granted certain rights under the terms of this License to Licensor's Software, whose Source Code You have access to, You are required to reciprocate by providing equal access and rights to all third parties to the Source Code of any Modifications,...
The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document. You may use content from this license document as source material for your own license agreement, but you may not use the name "Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement ," ("HESSLA") or any confusingly similar name, trademark or service-mark, in connection with any license agreement that is not either (1) a verbatim copy of this License Agreement, or (2) a license agreement that contains only additional terms expressly permitted by The HESSLA. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT Software that Hacktivismo[fn1] releases under this License Agreement is inten...