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Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute, execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to do so, all subject to the following: The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer, must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies o...
TORQUE v2.5+ Software License v1.1 Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Use this license to use or redistribute the TORQUE software v2.5+ and later versions. For free support for TORQUE users, questions should be emailed to the community of TORQUE users at torqueusers@supercluster.org. Users can also subscribe to the user mailing list at http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/torqueusers. Customers using TORQUE that also are licensed users of Moab branded software from Adaptive Computing Inc. can get TORQUE support from Adaptive Computing via: Email: torque-support@adaptivecomputing.com. Phone: (801) 717-3700 Web: www.adaptivecomputing.com www.clusterresources.com Th...
The TAPR Open Hardware License Version 1.0 (May 25, 2007) Copyright 2007 TAPR - http://www.tapr.org/OHL PREAMBLE Open Hardware is a thing - a physical artifact, either electrical or mechanical - whose design information is available to, and usable by, the public in a way that allows anyone to make, modify, distribute, and use that thing. In this preface, design information is called "documentation" and things created from it are called "products." The TAPR Open Hardware License ("OHL") agreement provides a legal framework for Open Hardware projects. It may be used for any kind of product, be it a hammer or a computer motherboard, and is TAPR's contribution to the community; anyone may use the OHL for their Open Hardware proj...
ZPL 1.1 Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 1.1 Copyright (c) Zope Corporation. All rights reserved. This license has been certified as open source. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions in 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. All advertising materials and documentation mentioning feature...
Preamble: This license aims at specifying the legal conditions of the re-use of public information that is freely reusable. It particularly specifies the rights to adapt the public information with a view to a commercial activity or not. The rights conceded by the present license do not imply any transfer of property right on the public information. It aims at facilitating the re-use of public information in the context of the development of the information society. According to Article 8 of the 17th November 2003 2003/98/CE directive “The state institutions may authorize the re-use of documents without any conditions or may impose conditions, possibly by the means of a license which would deal with relevant questions. Th...