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.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Distributions of all or part of the Software intended to be used by the recipients as they would use the unmodified Software, containing modifications that substantially alter, remove...

Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights reserved. License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software or this function. License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing the derived work. RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is" without expres...

GL2PS LICENSE Version 2, November 2003 Copyright (C) 2003, Christophe Geuzaine Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Permission to modify and distribute modified versions of this software is granted, provided that: 1) the modifications are licensed under the same terms as this software; 2) you make available the source code of any modifications that you distribute, either on the same media as you distribute any executable or other form of this software, or via a mechanism generally a...

The "No problem Bugroff" license. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called. It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software. Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens. In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License) I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawye...

FREE SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT CeCILL Notice This Agreement is a free software license that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, its conformity with French law, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to authors and the holders of economic rights over software. secondly, compliance with the principles for the distribution of free software: access to source codes, extended user-rights. The following bodies are the authors of the license CeCILL1

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