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.

gSOAP Public License Version 1.3b The gSOAP public license is derived from the Mozilla Public License (MPL1.1). The sections that were deleted from the original MPL1.1 text are 1.0.1, 2.1.(c),(d), 2.2.(c),(d), 8.2.(b), 10, and 11. Section 3.8 was added. The modified sections are 2.1.(b), 2.2.(b), 3.2 (simplified), 3.5 (deleted the last sentence), and 3.6 (simplified). This license applies to the gSOAP software package, with the exception of the soapcpp2 and wsdl2h source code located in gsoap/src and gsoap/wsdl, all code generated by soapcpp2 and wsdl2h, the UDDI source code gsoap/uddi2, and the Web server sample source code samples/webserver. To use any of these software tools and components commercially, a commercial license is re...

Dominion Rules is released under the terms of the Dominion Rules Licence (DRL), an open-gaming style licence intended to encourage the distribution and development of Dominion Rules. Dominion Rules Licence version 2.01 The following Licence governs the copying, modifying, and distributing of Dominion Rules. By copying, modifying, and/or distributing Dominion Rules, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Licence. 1. Application. This Licence applies to Dominion Rules. 2. Definitions. In this Licence: “Author” means the original author of Dominion Rules and includes Dominion Games (an inactive company formerly controlled by the original author of Dominion Rules). ”Copyright Notice” means any copyright notic...

Reciprocal Public License (RPL-1.5) Version 1.5, July 15, 2007 Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Technical Pursuit Inc., All Rights Reserved. PREAMBLE The Reciprocal Public License (RPL) is based on the concept of reciprocity or, if you prefer, fairness. In short, this license grew out of a desire to close loopholes in previous open source licenses, loopholes that allowed parties to acquire open source software and derive financial benefit from it without having to release their improvements or derivatives to the community which enabled them. This occurred any time an entity did not release their application to a "third party". While there is a certain freedom in this model of licensing, it struck the authors of the RPL as being unfai...

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1, February 1989 Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin St, 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. Preamble The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. The General Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. You can use it for your programs, too. ...

SUN COMMUNITY SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.8 (Rev. Date January 17, 2001) RECITALS Original Contributor has developed Specifications and Source Code implementations of certain Technology; and Original Contributor desires to license the Technology to a large community to facilitate research, innovation andproduct development while maintaining compatibility of such products with the Technology as delivered by Original Contributor; and Original Contributor desires to license certain Sun Trademarks for the purpose of branding products that are compatible with the relevant Technology delivered by Original Contributor; and You desire to license the Technology and possibly certain Sun Trademarks from Original Contributor on the terms a...

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