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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

License for Lua 4.0 and earlier versions Copyright © 1994–2002 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio. Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, translate, and distribute this software and its documentation (hereby called the "package") for any purpose, including commercial applications, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall appear in all copies or substantial portions of this package. The origin of this package must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original package. If you use this package in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be greatl...

Eiffel Forum License, version 1 Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify and/or distribute this package, provided that: - copyright notices are retained unchanged - any distribution of this package, whether modified or not, includes this file Permission is hereby also granted to distribute binary programs which depend on this package, provided that: - if the binary program depends on a modified version of this package, you must publicly release the modified version of this package THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY. ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SH...

Academic Free License v. 2.0 This Academic Free License (the "License") applies to any original work of authorship (the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the following notice immediately following the copyright notice for the Original Work: Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.0 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicenseable license to do the following: a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies; b) to prepare derivative works ("Derivative Works") based upon the Original Work; c) to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public; d) to perform the Original Work publicly; and e) to ...

Version 1.1, 25 August 1998 Copyright 1998, The OpenLDAP Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Note: This license is derived from the "Artistic License" as distributed with the Perl Programming Language. Its terms are different from those of the "Artistic License." PREAMBLE The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications. Definitions: "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyrigh...

THE FRAMEWORX OPEN LICENSE 1.0 (Frameworx-1.0) This License Agreement, The Frameworx Open License 1.0, has been entered into between The Frameworx Company and you, the licensee hereunder, effective as of Your acceptance of the Frameworx Code Base or an Downstream Distribution (each as defined below). AGREEMENT BACKGROUND The Frameworx Company is committed to the belief that open source software results in better quality, greater technical and product innovation in the market place and a more empowered and productive developer and end-user community. Our objective is to ensure that the Frameworx Code Base, and the source code for improvements and innovations to it, remain free and open to the community.To further these beli...

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