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.

Sun Industry Standards Source License - Version 1.1 1.0 DEFINITIONS 1.1 "Commercial Use" means distribution or otherwise making the Original Code available to a third party. 1.2 "Contributor Version" means the combination of the Original Code, and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3 "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.4 "Executable" means Original Code in any form other than Source Code. 1.5 "Initial Developer" means the individual or entity identified as the Initial Developer in the Source Code notice required by Exhibit A. 1.6 "Larger Work" means a work which combines Origina...

ALTERNATE ROUTE OPEN SOURCE LICENSE Version 1.1 Copyright © 1999-2001 Washington State Department of Transportation, Bridge and Structures Office Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.   With this License, the Bridge and Structures Office of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is supporting open source software concepts, while including appropriate warranty and liability provisions designed to protect itself from any claims relating to software program output. The following excerpt from the GNU General Public License is consistent with WSDOT's commitment to open source software. The licenses for most softwa...

Attribution Assurance License Copyright (c) 2002 by AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL "PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE" All Rights Reserved ATTRIBUTION ASSURANCE LICENSE (adapted from the original BSD license) Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the conditions below are met. These conditions require a modest attribution to (the "Author"), who hopes that its promotional value may help justify the thousands of dollars in otherwise billable time invested in writing this and other freely available, open-source software. 1. Redistributions of source code, in whole or part and with or without modification (the "Code"), must pro...

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...

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...

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