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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

1. DefinitionsAuthor/s: the creator/s of an original work or the creator/s of a derivative work.Broadcasting: the use of any means of distribution over a distance, such as telegraph, telephone, radio, television and other comparable media, including communication to the public by satellite and cable retransmission.Derivative work: a work based upon another work/s.Distribution: the marketing, the placing in circulation or the making available to the public, by whatever means and for whatever purpose, of a work or of copies thereof.Elaboration: all forms of modification, adaptation and transformation of a work.Lending: the making available for use of originals, of copies or of carriers of copyright works, for a limited period of time ...

SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.0 - 22 November 2005 PREAMBLE The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of cooperative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide an open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others. The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and sold with any software provided that the font names of derivative works are changed. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any othe...

Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you ma...

The Talis Community Licence (draft) Submitted by Ian Davis on Fri, 2006-04-21 11:58. Note Talis have recently funded work to make this license widely applicable. This draft has now been deprecated - see the Open Data Commons site for new licences and related information Note that this is a draft version of the licence The Talis Community Licence is intended to guarantee your freedom to use, share and modify data and to preserve the availability and accessibility of such data for the wider community. Definitions You means an individual or a legal entity exercising rights under, and complying with all of the terms of, this Licence or a future version of this Licence. Da...

Open Software License (“OSL”) v. 3.0 This Open Software License (the "License") applies to any original work of authorship (the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the following licensing notice adjacent to the copyright notice for the Original Work: Licensed under the Open Software License version 3.0 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license, for the duration of the copyright, to do the following: a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies, either alone or as part of a collective work; b) to translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange the Original Work, thereby creating derivative works ("Derivative W...

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