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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

SIMPLE PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 1.1, 2003-01-21 Copyright (c) The Analysis and Solutions Company http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/ 1. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the software and documentation or portions thereof, including modifications, that you make: a. The full text of this license in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work. b. Notice of any changes or modifications to the files, including the date changes were made. 2. The name, servicemarks and trademarks of the copyright holde...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences BSD Variant (GPL incompatible) Copyright (c) 2006 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("A.M.P.A.S."). Portions contributed by others as indicated. All rights reserved. A world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive right to distribute, copy, modify, create derivatives, and use, in source and binary forms, is hereby granted, subject to acceptance of this license. Performance of any of the aforementioned acts indicates acceptance to be bound by the following terms and conditions: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the Disclaimer of Warranty. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright n...

THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS COMMON PUBLIC LICENSE ("AGREEMENT"). ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROGRAM CONSTITUTES RECIPIENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. 1. DEFINITIONS "Contribution" means: a) in the case of the initial Contributor, the initial code and documentation distributed under this Agreement, and b) in the case of each subsequent Contributor: i) changes to the Program, and ii) additions to the Program; where such changes and/or additions to the Program originate from and are distributed by that particular Contributor. A Contribution 'originates' from a Contributor if it was added to the Program by such Contribu...

SUN INDUSTRY STANDARDS SOURCE LICENSE Version 1.2 
1.0 DEFINITIONS 1.1 Commercial Use means distribution or otherwise making the Original Code available to a third party. 1.2 Contributor Version means the combination of the Original Code, and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3 Electronic Distribution Mechanism means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.4 Executable means Original Code in any form other than Source Code. 1.5 Initial Developer means the individual or entity identified as the Initial Developer in the Source Code notice required by Exhibit A. 1.6 Larger Work means a work...

Preamble:  This license aims at specifying the legal conditions of the re-use of public information that is freely reusable.  It particularly specifies the rights to adapt the public information with a view to a commercial activity or not. The rights conceded by the present license do not imply any transfer of property right on the public information.  It aims at facilitating the re-use of public information in the context of the development of the information society.  According to Article 8 of the 17th November 2003 2003/98/CE directive “The state institutions may authorize the re-use of documents without any conditions or may impose conditions, possibly by the means of a license which would deal with relevant questions. Th...

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