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.

IPA Font License Agreement v1.0 (090305)   The Licensor provides the Licensed Program (as defined in Article 1 below) under the terms of this license agreement ("Agreement").  Any use, reproduction or distribution of the Licensed Program, or any exercise of rights under this Agreement by a Recipient (as defined in Article 1 below) constitutes the Recipient's acceptance of this Agreement.   Article 1 (Definitions) 1.         "Digital Font Program" shall mean a computer program containing, or used to render or display fonts. 2.         "Licensed Program" shall mean a Digital Font Program licensed by the Licensor under this Agreement. 3.         "Derived Program" shall mean a...

EFF Open Audio License: Version 1.0 I. Preamble II. Terms of Use III. How to Use this License I. PREAMBLE Principles Digital technology and the Internet can empower artists to reach a worldwide audience and to build upon each other's ideas and imagination with extremely low production and distribution costs. Many software developers, through both the open source software initiative and the free software movement, have long taken advantage of these facts to create a vibrant community of shared software that benefits creators and the public. EFF's Open Audio License provides a legal tool that borrows from both movements providing freedom and openness to use music and other expressive works in new wa...

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...

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2000 The Phorum Development Team. All rights reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Redistributions of any fo...

OpenContent License (OPL) Version 1.0, July 14, 1998. This document outlines the principles underlying the OpenContent (OC) movement and may be redistributed provided it remains unaltered. For legal purposes, this document is the license under which OpenContent is made available for use. The original version of this document may be found at http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml LICENSE Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distributing, and Modifying Items other than copying, distributing, and modifying the Content with which this license was distributed (such as using, etc.) are outside the scope of this license. 1. You may copy and distribute exact replicas of the OpenContent (OC) as you receive it, in any me...

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