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.

Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Karl Berry. Copyright (C) 1988, 1994, 2007 Stephen Gilmore. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 Torsten Martinsen. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.

DRAFT Sybase Open Watcom Public License version 2.0 USE OF SOFTWARE DESIGNATED AS SUBJECT TO THE SYBASE OPEN WATCOM PUBLIC LICENSE ("SOFTWARE") IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE AGREEMENT SET FORTH BELOW (“LICENSE”). YOU MAY NOT USE THE SOFTWARE IN ANY MANNER UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE. YOU INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE BY IN ANY MANNER USING (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY REPRODUCING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING) THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE IN ANY MANNER. 1. Application; Definitions. This License applies to any Original Code (defined below) so designated by the original licensor and any Modifica...

SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE C (Version 1.0 [06/07/2005]) 1. Definitions. 1.1. "Additional Notice Provisions" means such additional provisions as appear in the Notice in Original Code under the heading "Additional Notice Provisions." 1.2. "Covered Code" means the Original Code or Modifications, or any combination thereof. 1.3. "Larger Work" means a work that combines Covered Code or portions thereof with code not governed by the terms of this License. 1.4. "Licensable" means having the right to grant, to the maximum extent possible, whether at the time of the initial grant or subsequently acquired, any and all of the rights conveyed herein. 1.5. "License" means this document. 1.6. "Licensed Patents" means ...

VITA NUOVA LIBERAL SOURCE LICENCE 29 May 2003 IMPORTANT NOTICE - READ CAREFULLY: This Licence Agreement (``LICENCE'') is a legal agreement between you as an indi- vidual person or organisation (``YOU'') and Vita Nuova Hold- ings Limited (``VITA NUOVA'') (having an office at 3 Innova- tion Close, York Science Park, University Road, York England YO10 5ZF), for all or any portion of the software product accompanying this LICENCE, which includes computer software in binary and source code form, other information and docu- mentation (``LICENSED SOFTWARE''), where a notice declares that this LICENCE applies. By copying (except for the sole purpose of making a backup copy), using, modifying, or distributing all or part of YOUR copy of t...

This program, "bzip2", the associated library "libbzip2", and all documentation, are copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian R Seward. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 3. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and...

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