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Honest Public License (HPL) Version 1, August 2006 This license is a modified version of the GNU General Public License copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. but has not been made with their permission. Section 2(d) has been added to cover use of software over a computer network. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this Honest...
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Henrik Theiling Licence Version 2 This software is provided 'as-is', without warranty of any kind, express or implied. In no event will the authors or copyright holders be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked...
Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to distribute the complete modified source code. Modifications are to be distributed as patches to the released version. Permission to distribute binaries produced by compiling modified sources is granted, provided you 1. distribute the corresponding source modifications from the released version in the form of a patch file along with the binaries, 2. add special version identif...
GNU Simpler Free Documentation License Discussion Draft 1 of Version 1, 25 September 2006 THIS IS A DRAFT, NOT A PUBLISHED VERSION OF THE GNU SIMPLER FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 0. WHAT THIS LICENSE DOES The purpose of this License is to make a work of authorship free. This means giving all users the four essential freedoms: 0. The freedom to read, view, or use the work. 1. The freedom to change the work, with access to formats which make that convenient to do. ...
1. Definitions "Credit/Crediting" (Attribution) means acknowledging the Original Authors and/or Licensors of any Works and/or Derivative Work that You Share; "Derivative Work" means any work created by the editing, adaptation or translation of the Work in any media or any work made up of a number of separate works in which the Work is included in its entirety in unmodified form; "Licence" means this Creative Archive licence for use within the UK; "Logo" means the Creative Archive Licence logo attached to or incorporated in the Work; "No-Endorsement" means that You must not use the Work and/or Derivative Work in any way that would suggest or imply the Licensor's support, association or approval; "Non-Com...