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!

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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Version 2.0.1, 21 December 1999 Copyright 1999, The OpenLDAP Foundation, Redwood City, California, USA. All Rights Reserved. Redistribution and use of this software and associated documentation ("Software"), with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain copyright statements and notices. Redistributions must also contain a copy of this document. 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 name "OpenLDAP" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this So...

Download License for Freeware Add-Ons Software AG License Terms, Version 1.3 1. Objective Software AG provides free of charge add-on Software ("Program") on its Community Source Web Site (the "Site"). The Program is created by Software AG and is intended to be used only in addition to the Software AG product line Tamino, which is available under a separate license agreement. By downloading the Program you accept the terms of this present agreement ("License"). Software AG provides the Program in binary form ("Object Code") on the Site. 2. Grant of Rights Software AG hereby grants you a non-exclusive copyright license to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, distribute or sublicense the Program. Distribution an...

SCEA Shared Source License 1.0 Terms and Conditions: 1. Definitions: "Software" shall mean the software and related documentation, whether in Source or Object Form, made available under this SCEA Shared Source license ("License"), that is indicated by a copyright notice file included in the source files or attached or accompanying the source files. "Licensor" shall mean Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (herein "SCEA") "Object Code" or "Object Form" shall mean any form that results from translation or transformation of Source Code, including but not limited to compiled object code or conversions to other forms intended for machine execution. "Source Code" or "Source Form" shall have the plain meaning generally accep...

The "No problem Bugroff" license. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called. It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software. Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens. In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License) I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawye...

skyBuilders Open Source License Draft Version 1.1 Copyright (c) 1999-2002 skyBuilders.com, Inc. 77 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. All rights reserved. (This license itself may be modified and adapted for non-skyBuilders purposes.) skyBuilders.com, Inc. and all Contributors hereby grant a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license, subject to third party intellectual property claims, to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute this software (or portions thereof) with or without modifications, and/or as part of a larger work. Neither the name or trademarks of skyBuilders.com nor the names or trademarks of other Contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this so...

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A collection of open source and copyleft license writers.

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