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!

This archive contains 729 texts, with 682,528 words or 4,889,496 characters.

Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

1. Definitions 1.1. "Contributor" means each individual or legal entity that creates, contributes to the creation of, or owns Covered Software. 1.2. "Contributor Version" means the combination of the Contributions of others (if any) used by a Contributor and that particular Contributor's Contribution. 1.3. "Contribution" means Covered Software of a particular Contributor. 1.4. "Covered Software" means Source Code Form to which the initial Contributor has attached the notice in Exhibit A, the Executable Form of such Source Code Form, and Modifications of such Source Code Form, in each case including portions thereof. 1.5. "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" means (a) that the initial C...

COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION (C) COPYRIGHT 2004 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO This program discloses material protectable under copyright laws of the United States. Permission to copy and modify this software and its documentation is hereby granted, provided that this notice is retained thereon and on all copies or modifications. The University of Chicago makes no representations as to the suitability and operability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"; without express or implied warranty. Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works, and to redistribute to others, so long as this original copyright notice is retained. Any publication resulting from research that made use of this software should cit...

Copyright (C) 2001 Leptonica. All rights reserved. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in writing. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute this source code, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, with the following restrictions: (1) the origin of this source code must not be misrepresented; (2) modified versions must be plainly marked as such; and (3) this notice may not be removed or altered from any source or modified source distribution.

Pine License and Legal Notices Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington. No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of the University of Washington. Pine, Pico, and Pilot software and its included text are Copyright 1989-2008 by the University of Washington. Use of Pine/Pico/Pilot: You may compile and execute these programs for any purpose, including commercial, without paying anything to the University of Washington, provided that the legal notices are maintained intact and honored. Local modification of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual agreement: In order to reduce confusion and facilitate debugging, we request that locally modified versi...

OPEN TELECOM PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.0 1. Definitions. 1.1. "Contributor" means each entity that creates or contributes to the creation of Modifications. 1.2. "Contributor Version" means the combination of the Original Code, prior Modifications used by a Contributor, and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3. "Covered Code" means the Original Code or Modifications or the combination of the Original Code and Modifications, in each case including portions thereof. 1.4. "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.5. "Executable" means Covered Code in any form other than Source Code. 1.6. "I...

People : Open Source Enthusiasts

A collection of open source and copyleft license writers.

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