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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Nokia Open Source License (NOKOS License) Version 1.0a 1. DEFINITIONS. "Affiliates" of a party shall mean an entity a) which is directly or indirectly controlling such party; b) which is under the same direct or indirect ownership or control as such party; or c) which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such party. For these purposes, an entity shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other entity has fifty percent (50%) or more of the votes in such entity, is able to direct its affairs and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body. "Commercial Use" shall mean distribution or otherwise making the Covered Software available to a third party...

Attribution Assurance License Copyright (c) 2002 by AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL "PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE" All Rights Reserved ATTRIBUTION ASSURANCE LICENSE (adapted from the original BSD license) Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the conditions below are met. These conditions require a modest attribution to (the "Author"), who hopes that its promotional value may help justify the thousands of dollars in otherwise billable time invested in writing this and other freely available, open-source software. 1. Redistributions of source code, in whole or part and with or without modification (the "Code"), must pro...

The OpenLDAP Public License Version 2.7, 7 September 2001 Redistribution and use of this software and associated documentation ("Software"), with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain copyright statements and notices, 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce applicable copyright statements and notices, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution, and 3. Redistributions must contain a verbatim copy of this document. The OpenLDAP Foundation may revise this license from time to time. Each revision is distinguished by a version number. ...

MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSEVersion 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 Co...

CeCILL-B FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Notice This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users, secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software. The authors of the CeCILL-B1 license are: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - ...

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