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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

COPYRIGHT The following is a notice of limited availability of the code, and disclaimer which must be included in the prologue of the code and in all source listings of the code. Copyright Notice + 2002 University of Chicago Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works, and to redistribute to others. This software was authored by: Argonne National Laboratory Group W. Gropp: (630) 252-4318; FAX: (630) 252-5986; e-mail: gropp@mcs.anl.gov E. Lusk: (630) 252-7852; FAX: (630) 252-5986; e-mail: lusk@mcs.anl.gov Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439 GOVERNMENT LICENSE Portions of this material resulted from work developed under a U.S. Government C...

COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) Version 1.0 1. Definitions. 1.1. “Contributor” means each individual or entity that creates or contributes to the creation of Modifications. 1.2. “Contributor Version” means the combination of the Original Software, prior Modifications used by a Contributor (if any), and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3. “Covered Software” means (a) the Original Software, or (b) Modifications, or (c) the combination of files containing Original Software with files containing Modifications, in each case including portions thereof. 1.4. “Executable” means the Covered Software in...

No-Advertising, 3-Clause
New BSD (no advertising, 3 clause) Copyright (c) , All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 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. * Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. TH...

Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.DefinitionsThe terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.Grant of Rights(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in se...

wxWindows Library Licence, Version 3.1 Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling et al Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed. WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTI...

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