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LICENSE TERMS SUMMARY: The current CCD CopyWrite license text is written with the intent of being understandable to the layman while still providing adequate legal protection and clarity for the terms of the license.  The latter goal can interfere with the former, however, and as such a shorter summary of the intent of the license terms is provided here:IN BRIEF: This license is meant to mimic the "public domain", a concept particular to certain countries, which means that no copyright or patent claims are enforced.  This is modified by two points:Unlike the public domain, nothing licensed CCD CopyWrite can be subsumed under terms of a contrary copyright license.Legally enforced "reminders" to avoid plagiarism or misattributio...

Academic Free License Version 1.1 This Academic Free 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 Academic Free License version 1.1." Grant of License. Licensor hereby grants to any person obtaining a copy of the Original Work ("You") a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license (1) to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, perform, distribute and/or sell copies of the Original Work and derivative works thereof, and (2) under patent claims owned or controlled by the Licensor that are embodied in the Original Work as furn...

FREE SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT CeCILL Notice This Agreement is a free software license that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, its conformity with French law, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to authors and the holders of economic rights over software. secondly, compliance with the principles for the distribution of free software: access to source codes, extended user-rights. The following bodies are the authors of the license CeCILL1

APPLE PUBLIC SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.0 - August 6, 2003 Please read this License carefully before downloading this software. By downloading or using this software, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. If you do not or cannot agree to the terms of this License, please do not download or use the software. Apple Note: In January 2007, Apple changed its corporate name from "Apple Computer, Inc." to "Apple Inc." This change has been reflected below and copyright years updated, but no other changes have been made to the APSL 2.0. 1. General; Definitions. This License applies to any program or other work which Apple Inc. ("Apple") makes publicly available and which contains a notice placed by Apple identifying s...

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE FOR SIMPUTERISED DEVICES Version 1.1        7 May, 2001 Copyright © The Simputer Trust This Manufacturing and Distribution License for Simputerised Devices is executed on this the ___ day of ___________, 2001 by and between: The Simputer Trust, a registered non-profit trust having its office at 9A & B Garden Homes 27, Aga Abbas Ali Road, Bangalore - 560042 and represented herein by its managing trustee Mr. Vinay L. Deshpande (hereinafter the Simputer Trust), of the ONE PART; and _________________, a company incorporated under the laws of ______________ and having its registered office at ____________________, represented herein by its Managing Director, _____________ (hereinafter...