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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences BSD Variant (GPL incompatible) Copyright (c) 2006 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("A.M.P.A.S."). Portions contributed by others as indicated. All rights reserved. A world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive right to distribute, copy, modify, create derivatives, and use, in source and binary forms, is hereby granted, subject to acceptance of this license. Performance of any of the aforementioned acts indicates acceptance to be bound by the following terms and conditions: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the Disclaimer of Warranty. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright n...

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...

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...

1. DefinitionsAccess control mechanism: a technological measure which, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner or related rights owner, to gain access to the work.Acts authorised by licensor: acts concerning granted rights (in particular, act of access, act of copy, act of modification, act of sharing).Acts not authorised by licensor: acts concerning copyright or possible moral rights.Author/s: the creator/s of an original work or the creator/s of a derivative work.Broadcasting: the use of any means of distribution over a distance, such as telegraph, telephone, radio, television and other comparable media, including comm...

GNU Simpler Free Documentation License Discussion Draft 1 of Version 1, 25 September 2006 THIS IS A DRAFT, NOT A PUBLISHED VERSION OF THE GNU SIMPLER FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 0. WHAT THIS LICENSE DOES The purpose of this License is to make a work of authorship free. This means giving all users the four essential freedoms: 0. The freedom to read, view, or use the work. 1. The freedom to change the work, with access to formats which make that convenient to do. ...

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