Welcome to CopyLeftLicense.com! Here you will find an archive of all the copyleft and open source licenses that have been published in the past. From Beerware Licensing, where you need to buy a beer for the open source programmer if you see them in a bar, to the fine-tuned and legally-curated Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License, we have it all. By knowing where we've come from, we might be able to learn where to go!

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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Sun Industry Standards Source License - Version 1.1 1.0 DEFINITIONS 1.1 "Commercial Use" means distribution or otherwise making the Original Code available to a third party. 1.2 "Contributor Version" means the combination of the Original Code, and the Modifications made by that particular Contributor. 1.3 "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a mechanism generally accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer of data. 1.4 "Executable" means Original Code in any form other than Source Code. 1.5 "Initial Developer" means the individual or entity identified as the Initial Developer in the Source Code notice required by Exhibit A. 1.6 "Larger Work" means a work which combines Origina...

February 2002 Preamble -------- The Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") license has proven very effective over the years at allowing for a wide spread of work throughout both commercial and non-commercial products. For programmers whose primary intention is to improve the general quality of available software, it is arguable that there is no better license than the BSD license, as it permits improvements to be used wherever they will help, without idealogical or metallic constraint. This is of particular value to those who produce reference implementations of proposed standards: The case of TCP/IP clearly illustrates that freely and universally available implementations leads the rapid acceptance of standards -- often even be...

Software License for MTL Copyright (c) 2007 The Trustees of Indiana University. 2008 Dresden University of Technology and the Trustees of Indiana University. 2010 SimuNova UG (haftungsbeschränkt), www.simunova.com. All rights reserved. Authors: Peter Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine This file is part of the Matrix Template Library Dresden University of Technology -- short TUD -- and Indiana University -- short IU -- have the exclusive rights to license this product under the following license. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. All redistributions of source code must retain ...

EU DataGrid Software License (EUDatagrid) Copyright (c) 2001 EU DataGrid. All rights reserved. This software includes voluntary contributions made to the EU DataGrid. For more information on the EU DataGrid, please see http://www.eu-datagrid.org/. Installation, use, reproduction, display, modification and redistribution of this software, with or without modification, in source and binary forms, are permitted. Any exercise of rights under this license by you or your sub-licensees is subject to the following conditions: 1. Redistributions of this software, with or without modification, must reproduce the above copyright notice and the above license statement as well as this list of conditions, in the software, the user docum...

Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jython Developers 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 Jython Developers nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific pri...

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