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CeCILL-B FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Notice This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users, secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software. The authors of the CeCILL-B1 license are: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - ...
The Open Software License Version 1.0 This Open Software License (the "License") applies to any original work of authorship (the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the following notice immediately following the copyright notice for the Original Work: "Licensed under the Open Software License version 1.0" License Terms 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license to do the following: a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies; b) to prepare derivative works ("Derivative Works") based upon the Original Work; c) to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso ...
COPYRIGHT The following is a notice of limited availability of the code, and disclaimer which must be included in the prologue of the code and in all source listings of the code. Copyright Notice + 2002 University of Chicago Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works, and to redistribute to others. This software was authored by: Argonne National Laboratory Group W. Gropp: (630) 252-4318; FAX: (630) 252-5986; e-mail: gropp@mcs.anl.gov E. Lusk: (630) 252-7852; FAX: (630) 252-5986; e-mail: lusk@mcs.anl.gov Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439 GOVERNMENT LICENSE Portions of this material resulted from work developed under a U.S. Government C...
LHa License Version 1.0 Original Source Code License Statement: Copyright (C) MCMLXXXIX Yooichi.Tagawa Original Authors License Statement (from man/lha.man, translated by Osamu Aoki ): Permission is given for redistribution, copy, and modification provided following conditions are met. 1. Do not remove copyright clause. 2. Distribution shall conform: a. The content of redistribution (i.e., source code, documentation, and reference guide for programmers) shall include original contents. If contents are modified, the document clearly indicating the fact of modification must be included. b. If LHa is redistributed with added values, you must put your best effort to include them (Translator comment: If read literally...
Copyright 1989--2004 by Hunter Goatley. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 2. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.