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.

BiOS Mutual Non-Assertion 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 to the tools of innovation, to promote the development and improvement of these tools, and to make such developments and improvements freely acces...

Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the 2-clause BSDL (see the file BSDL), or the conditions below: 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing the author to include your modifications in the software. ...

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means. In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", W...

Free Software License This software is provided free of charge and may be freely copied, modified, and distributed. BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE...

This work is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. License By obtaining and/or copying this work, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions. Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this work, 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 work or portions thereof, including modifications: • The full text of this NOTICE in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work. • Any pre-existing intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or terms and conditions. If none exist, the W...

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