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1. DefinitionsAccess control mechanism: a technological measure which, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner or related rights owner, to gain access to the work.Acts authorised by licensor: acts concerning granted rights (in particular, act of access, act of copy, act of modification, act of sharing).Acts not authorised by licensor: acts concerning copyright or possible moral rights.Author/s: the creator/s of an original work or the creator/s of a derivative work.Broadcasting: the use of any means of distribution over a distance, such as telegraph, telephone, radio, television and other comparable media, including comm...
Preamble This License governs Your use of the Work. This License is intended to allow developers to use the Source Code and Executable Files provided as part of the Work in any application in any form. The main points subject to the terms of the License are: Source Code and Executable Files can be used in commercial applications; Source Code and Executable Files can be redistributed; and Source Code can be modified to create derivative works. No claim of suitability, guarantee, or any warranty whatsoever is provided. The software is provided "as-is". The Article(s) accompanying the Work may not be distributed or republished without the Author's consent This License is entered between You, the individual or o...
Pine License and Legal Notices Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington. No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of the University of Washington. Pine, Pico, and Pilot software and its included text are Copyright 1989-2008 by the University of Washington. Use of Pine/Pico/Pilot: You may compile and execute these programs for any purpose, including commercial, without paying anything to the University of Washington, provided that the legal notices are maintained intact and honored. Local modification of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual agreement: In order to reduce confusion and facilitate debugging, we request that locally modified versi...
The Cougaar Open Source License Agreement Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Cougaar Group. All rights reserved. This Cougaar Open Source License Agreement (the 'Agreement') sets forth the terms and conditions under which the Cougaar Software (as defined below), sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Agency, will be licensed by BBNT Solutions, LLC ('BBN') or other identified copyright holder called ('Licensor') to you ('Licensee' or 'You'), and under which Derivative Works (as defined below) of Cougaar Software will be licensed by Licensee to Licensor and the Cougaar Group. Definitions: 'Cougaar Software' means the Cognitive Agent Architecture software originally created and released by Licensor under this Agreement. '...
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. ...