CopyLeft License : Every Open Source License

Preamble:  This license aims at specifying the legal conditions of the re-use of public information that is freely reusable.  It particularly specifies the rights to adapt the public information with a view to a commercial activity or not. The rights conceded by the present license do not imply any transfer of property right on the public information.  It aims at facilitating the re-use of public information in the context of the development of the information society.  According to Article 8 of the 17th November 2003 2003/98/CE directive “The state institutions may authorize the re-use of documents without any conditions or may impose conditions, possibly by the means of a license which would deal with relevant questions. Th...

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Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Please note the following commentary about this “verbatim license” by Eben Moglen: “Our intention in using the phrase ‘verbatim copying in any medium’ is not to require retention of page headings and footers or other formatting features. Retention of weblinks in both hyperlinked and non-hyperlinked media (as notes or some other form of printed URL in non-HTML media) is required”.

Academic Free License v. 2.1 (plain text version) This Academic Free License (the "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 2.1 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicenseable license to do the following: to reproduce the Original Work in copies; to prepare derivative works ("Derivative Works") based upon the Original Work; to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public; to perform the Original Wor...

VOSTROM Public License for Open Source Copyright (c) 2007 VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. This VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. (VOSTROM) Distribution (code and documentation) is made available to the open source community as a public service by VOSTROM. Contact VOSTROM at license@vostrom.com for information on other licensing arrangements (e.g. for use in proprietary applications). Under this license, this Distribution may be modified and the original version and modified versions may be copied, distributed, publicly displayed and performed provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Modified versions are distributed with source code and documentation and with permission for others to use any code and documentation (whether in original or m...