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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

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Preface of licence This licence grants you the right to copy, use and distribute information, provided you acknowledge the contributors and comply with the terms and conditions stipulated in this licence. By using information made available under this licence, you accept the terms and conditions set forth in this licence. As set out in Section 7, the licensor disclaims any and all liability for the quality of the information and what the information is used for. This licence shall not impose any limitations on the rights or freedoms of the licensee under the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act or any other legislation granting the general public a right of access to public sector information, or that follow from exemptions or limita...

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2000 The Phorum Development Team. All rights reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Redistributions of any fo...

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE FOR SIMPUTERISED DEVICES Version 1.1        7 May, 2001 Copyright © The Simputer Trust This Manufacturing and Distribution License for Simputerised Devices is executed on this the ___ day of ___________, 2001 by and between: The Simputer Trust, a registered non-profit trust having its office at 9A & B Garden Homes 27, Aga Abbas Ali Road, Bangalore - 560042 and represented herein by its managing trustee Mr. Vinay L. Deshpande (hereinafter the Simputer Trust), of the ONE PART; and _________________, a company incorporated under the laws of ______________ and having its registered office at ____________________, represented herein by its Managing Director, _____________ (hereinafter...

ZENPLEX PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.0 1. Definitions. 1.0.1. "Commercial Use" means distribution or otherwise making the Covered Code available to a third party. 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 and corresponding documentation released with the source code. 1.4. "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a mechanism gener...

---- Part 1: CMU/UCD copyright notice: (BSD like) ----- Copyright 1989, 1991, 1992 by Carnegie Mellon University Derivative Work - 1996, 1998-2000 Copyright 1996, 1998-2000 The Regents of the University of California All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of CMU and The Regents of the University of California not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific written permission. CMU AN...

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