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.

COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) Version 1.1 1. Definitions. 1.1. “Contributor” means each individual or entity that creates or contributes to the creation of Modifications. 1.2. “Contributor Version” means the combination of the Original Software, prior Modifications used by a Contributor (if any), and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3. “Covered Software” means (a) the Original Software, or (b) Modifications, or (c) the combination of files containing Original Software with files containing Modifications, in each case including portions thereof. 1.4. “Executable” means the Covered Software in any form other than Source Code. 1.5. ...

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0 (CPAL-1.0) 1. “Definitions” 1.0.1 “Commercial Use” means distribution or otherwise making the Covered Code available to a third party. 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 ...

Free Art license [ Copyleft Attitude ] Version 1.1 Preamble: With this Free Art license, you are given the right to freely copy, distribute and transform the artworks in the respect of the rights of the author. Far from ignoring the rights of the author, this license recognizes them and protects them. It reformulates their principle while making it possible for the public to make a creative use of the works of art. Whereas the use that is being made of the right to litterary and artistic property resulted in a restriction of the public's access to the works of art, the goal of the Free Art license is to support it. The intention is to open the access and to authorize the use of the resources of an artwork by the greatest number of pe...

The OpenLDAP Public License Version 1.4, 18 January 1999 Copyright 1998-1999, The OpenLDAP Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Note: This license is derived from the "Artistic License" as distributed with the Perl Programming Language. As significant differences exist, the complete license should be read. PREAMBLE The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications. Definitions: "Package" refers to...

The LaTeX Project Public License =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- LPPL Version 1.3a 2004-10-01 Copyright 1999 2002-04 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but modification of it is not allowed. PREAMBLE ======== The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the primary license under which the the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed. You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright and which you wish to distribute. This license may be particularly suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but you may use it with small modifications even if your work is unrelated to TeX. The section `WHETHER AND HOW TO ...

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