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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Creative Commons Corporation (“Creative Commons”) is not a law firm and does not provide legal services or legal advice. Distribution of Creative Commons public licenses does not create a lawyer-client or other relationship. Creative Commons makes its licenses and related information available on an “as-is” basis. Creative Commons gives no warranties regarding its licenses, any material licensed under their terms and conditions, or any related information. Creative Commons disclaims all liability for damages resulting from their use to the fullest extent possible. Using Creative Commons Public Licenses Creative Commons public licenses provide a standard set of terms and conditions that creators and other right...

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...

AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1, March 2002 Copyright © 2002 Affero Inc. 510 Third Street - Suite 225, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA This license is a modified version of the GNU General Public License copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. made with their permission. Section 2(d) has been added to cover use of software over a computer network. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast...

ORIGINAL LICENSE: This software is (c) Copyright 1992 by Panagiotis Tsirigotis The author (Panagiotis Tsirigotis) grants permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee, provided that the above copyright notice extant in files in this distribution is not removed from files included in any redistribution and that this copyright notice is also included in any redistribution. Modifications to this software may be distributed, either by distributing the modified software or by distributing patches to the original software, under the following additional terms: 1. The version number will be modified as follows: a. The first 3 components of the version number (i.e ...

COPYRIGHT NOTICE All of the documentation and software included in this software distribution from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are copyrighted by their respective developers. Portions of the software are derived from the Net/2 and 4.4-Lite Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD) of the University of California at Berkeley and those portions are copyright by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. The UC Berkeley Copyright and License agreement is binding on those portions of the software. In all cases, the NRL developers have retained the original UC Berkeley copyright and license notices in the respective files in accordance with the UC Berkeley copyrights and license. Portions of this software ...

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