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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The FreeCard exception from the GPL If you intend to contribute to FreeCard, you have to place your contribution either under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The best way to do this is to add the following notice to your contribution's readme file or add it as a comment to the start of any source code files you may be submitting: is (c) Copyright by . It is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. As a special exception, you may publish an integrated combin...
The "No problem Bugroff" license. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called. It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software. Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens. In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License) I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawye...
VOSTROM Public License for Open Source Copyright (c) 2007 VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. This VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. (VOSTROM) Distribution (code and documentation) is made available to the open source community as a public service by VOSTROM. Contact VOSTROM at license@vostrom.com for information on other licensing arrangements (e.g. for use in proprietary applications). Under this license, this Distribution may be modified and the original version and modified versions may be copied, distributed, publicly displayed and performed provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Modified versions are distributed with source code and documentation and with permission for others to use any code and documentation (whether in original or m...
Nokia Open Source License (NOKOS License) Version 1.0a 1. DEFINITIONS. "Affiliates" of a party shall mean an entity a) which is directly or indirectly controlling such party; b) which is under the same direct or indirect ownership or control as such party; or c) which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such party. For these purposes, an entity shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other entity has fifty percent (50%) or more of the votes in such entity, is able to direct its affairs and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body. "Commercial Use" shall mean distribution or otherwise making the Covered Software available to a third party...
Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) All rights reserved. This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL. This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the following conditions are aheared to. The following conditions apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). Copyright remains Eric Young's, and as such any Copyright notices in the code are not to be removed. If this pa...