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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

VITA NUOVA LIBERAL SOURCE LICENCE 29 May 2003 IMPORTANT NOTICE - READ CAREFULLY: This Licence Agreement (``LICENCE'') is a legal agreement between you as an indi- vidual person or organisation (``YOU'') and Vita Nuova Hold- ings Limited (``VITA NUOVA'') (having an office at 3 Innova- tion Close, York Science Park, University Road, York England YO10 5ZF), for all or any portion of the software product accompanying this LICENCE, which includes computer software in binary and source code form, other information and docu- mentation (``LICENSED SOFTWARE''), where a notice declares that this LICENCE applies. By copying (except for the sole purpose of making a backup copy), using, modifying, or distributing all or part of YOUR copy of t...

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 ...

/* * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): * wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning Kamp * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

NETSCAPE PUBLIC LICENSEVersion 1.0 1. Definitions. 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. 1.4. ``Electronic Distribution Mechanism'' means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.5. ``Executable'' means C...

The Zend Engine License, version 2.00 Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Zend Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is 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. The names "Zend" and "Zend Engine" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior permission from...

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