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.

Preamble This Simple Public License 2.0 (SimPL 2.0 for short) is a plain language implementation of GPL 2.0.  The words are different, but the goal is the same - to guarantee for all users the freedom to share and change software.  If anyone wonders about the meaning of the SimPL, they should interpret it as consistent with GPL 2.0.Simple Public License (SimPL) 2.0 The SimPL applies to the software's source and object code and comes with any rights that I have in it (other than trademarks). You agree to the SimPL by copying, distributing, or making a derivative work of the software. You get the royalty free right to:Use the software for any purpose; Make derivative works of it (this is called a "Derived Work"); Copy a...

The LaTeX Project Public License =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- LPPL Version 1.3b 2006-01-07 Copyright 1999 2002-2006 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but modification of it is not allowed. PREAMBLE ======== The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the primary license under which the the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed. You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright and which you wish to distribute. This license may be particularly suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but you may use it with small modifications even if your work is unrelated to TeX. The section `WHETHER AND HOW T...

POV-Ray Licence Agreement GENERAL LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PERSONAL USE Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) Version 3.6 License and Terms & Conditions of Use version of 1 February 2005 (also known as POVLEGAL.DOC) Please read through the terms and conditions of this license carefully. This license is a binding legal agreement between you, the 'User' (an individual or single entity) and Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. ACN 105 891 870 (herein also referred to as the "Company"), a company incorporated in the state of Victoria, Australia, for the product known as the "Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer", also referred to herein as 'POV-Ray'. YOUR ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THE DISCLAIMER OF WARR...

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...

License for Lua 4.0 and earlier versions Copyright © 1994–2002 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio. Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, translate, and distribute this software and its documentation (hereby called the "package") for any purpose, including commercial applications, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall appear in all copies or substantial portions of this package. The origin of this package must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original package. If you use this package in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be greatl...

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