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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Open Patent License Written by Victor Yodaiken Revised by Wind River Systems, Inc. The Open RTLinux Patent License ("License" or "Agreement") governs the royalty-free use of the process defined by U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745. Anyone can license the use of the Patented Process (as defined below) by agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. Such person is considered to be the Licensee ("Licensee"). The Patented Process may be used, without any payment of a royalty, with two (2) types of software. The first type is software that operates under the terms of a GPL (as defined below). The second type is software operating under an Open RTLinux Execution Environment (as defined below). As long as the Licensee complies with ...

[] Copyright [(C)] [by] [.] [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 appear in all copies, [and] that both {the|that} copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation[, and that the name [of] [or ] not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission]. [ makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.] [ DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING A...

EGENIX.COM PUBLIC LICENSE AGREEMENT Version 1.1.0 This license agreement is based on the Python CNRI License Agreement, a widely accepted open- source license. 1. Introduction This "License Agreement" is between eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH ("eGenix.com"), having an office at Pastor-Loeh-Str. 48, D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany, and the Individual or Organization ("Licensee") accessing and otherwise using this software in source or binary form and its associated documentation ("the Software"). 2. License Subject to the terms and conditions of this eGenix.com Public License Agreement, eGenix.com hereby grants Licensee a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform ...

Apache LicenseVersion 2.0, January 2004http://www.apache.org/licenses/ TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION 1. Definitions. "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document. "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License. "Legal Entity" shall mean the union of the acting entity and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition, "control" means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or otherwise, ...

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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