CopyLeft License : Every Open Source License

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!

This archive contains 729 texts, with 682,528 words or 4,889,496 characters.

Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Artistic License 2.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2006, The Perl Foundation. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble This license establishes the terms under which a given free software Package may be copied, modified, distributed, and/or redistributed. The intent is that the Copyright Holder maintains some artistic control over the development of that Package while still keeping the Package available as open source and free software. You are always permitted to make arrangements wholly outside of this license directly with the Copyright Holder of a given Package. If the terms of this license do not permit the full use that you propose to ma...

MakeIndex Distribution Notice 11/11/1989 Copyright (C) 1989 by Chen & Harrison International Systems, Inc. Copyright (C) 1988 by Olivetti Research Center Copyright (C) 1987 by Regents of the University of California Author: Pehong Chen (phc@renoir.berkeley.edu) Chen & Harrison International Systems, Inc. Palo Alto, California USA Permission is hereby granted to make and distribute original copies of this program provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved and provided that the recipient is not asked to waive or limit his right to redistribute copies as allowed by this permission notice and provided that anyone who receives an executable form of this p...

/* ==================================================================== * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1 * * Copyright (c) 2000 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights * reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * 2. 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. * * 3. The end-user...

Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.DefinitionsThe terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.Grant of Rights(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in se...

# Open Works License This is version 0.5 of the Open Works License. ## Terms Permission is hereby granted by the copyright holder(s), author(s), and contributor(s) of this work, to any person who obtains a copy of this work, in any form, to reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, sell, use, or otherwise deal in the licensed material without restriction, provided the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions, in whole or in part, must retain this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions, in whole or in part, must retain any applicable notices of attribution and copyright. 3. This license does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, product names, or other id...

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