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.

The Open Software License Version 1.0 This Open Software 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 Open Software License version 1.0" License Terms 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license to do the following: a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies; b) to prepare derivative works ("Derivative Works") based upon the Original Work; c) to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso ...

Copyright 1996-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

Ricoh Source Code 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. "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a website or any other mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.4. "Executable Code" means Governed Code in any form other than Source Code. 1.5. "Governed Code" means the Original Code or Modifications or the combination of the Original Code and Modifications, in each ca...

Libre Commons Res Communes License The commons is usually defined as that which is shared communally with others. This can, for example, be a resource, such as land or water, which is owned by the members of the community. The commons has traditionally been limited to a local community right and to a physical resource, such as a forest. But it has also been used to refer to the space of intellectual thought, ideas and concepts (e.g., 'ideas commons', an 'innovation commons', an 'intellectual commons', a 'digital commons', an 'e-commons', 'the public domain', 'Intellectual Space' and so on). The Libre Commons i^e^ Communes Licence commits the work that is inscribed with this Res Communes license to the shared common that all ...

BiOS Agreement for Health Technologies Version 2.0      CAMBIA DRAFT Health Technologies BiOS 2.0 agreement      Background:      A. Access to enabling technologies, tools and platforms for basic innovation is important. It is undesirable that the delivery of products, whether for public good or for profit, should be encumbered by the terms under which such enabling technologies are made available. Research and development will be most efficient, effective, economical and equitable if these tools are available readily to all in a way that protects capability to use the technology and improvements.      B. The BIOS Initiative (www.bios.net) sets out to ensure common access t

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A collection of open source and copyleft license writers.

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