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Sure, no problem. Don't worry, be happy. (This page is a but a local copy of John Carter's "No problem Bugroff" license, first seen in july 1998, in its latest 1999-03-11 version).

Sure, no problem. Don't worry, be happy.

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. CeCILL. Creative Commons Legal Code. Statement of Purpose The laws of most jurisdictions throughout the world automatically confer exclusive Copyright and Related Rights (defined below) upon the creator and subsequent owner(s) (each and all, an "owner") of an original work of authorship and/or a database (each, a "Work").

Creative Commons Legal Code

Certain owners wish to permanently relinquish those rights to a Work for the purpose of contributing to a commons of creative, cultural and scientific works ("Commons") that the public can reliably and without fear of later claims of infringement build upon, modify, incorporate in other works, reuse and redistribute as freely as possible in any form whatsoever and for any purposes, including without limitation commercial purposes. These owners may contribute to the Commons to promote the ideal of a free culture and the further production of creative, cultural and scientific works, or to gain reputation or greater distribution for their Work in part through the use and efforts of others.

Other Copyrights. Copyright : Other CopyrightsPrevious: XFree86 CopyrightNext: Copyright Portions of code are covered by the following copyrights: 2.1.

Other Copyrights

X Consortium Copyright (C) 1996 X Consortium. Boost license. Open Source License for Berkeley DB. The Perl Foundation. Copyright (c) 2000-2006, The Perl Foundation.

The Perl Foundation

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble This license establishes the terms under which a given free software Package may be copied, modified, distributed, and/or redistributed. The intent is that the Copyright Holder maintains some artistic control over the development of that Package while still keeping the Package available as open source and free software. You are always permitted to make arrangements wholly outside of this license directly with the Copyright Holder of a given Package. Definitions "Copyright Holder" means the individual(s) or organization(s) named in the copyright notice for the entire Package. "Contributor" means any party that has contributed code or other material to the Package, in accordance with the Copyright Holder's procedures.

La licence « artistique » License, Version 2.0. Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 1.

License, Version 2.0

Definitions. "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document. "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License. "Legal Entity" shall mean the union of the acting entity and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity. Various Licenses and Comments about Them. We try to list the most commonly encountered free software license on this page, but cannot list them all; we'll try our best to answer questions about free software licenses whether or not they are listed here.

Various Licenses and Comments about Them

The licenses are more or less in alphabetical order within each section. If you believe you have found a violation of one of our licenses, please refer to our license violation page. If you have questions about free software licenses, you can email us at <licensing@fsf.org>. Because our resources are limited, we do not answer questions that are meant to assist proprietary software development or distribution, and you'll likely get an answer faster if you ask a specific question that isn't already covered here or in our FAQ.

We welcome knowledgeable volunteers who want to help answer licensing questions. If you are contemplating writing a new license, please also contact us at <licensing@fsf.org>. Licenses. Published software should be free software.

Licenses

To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but occasionally we use other free software licenses. We use only licenses that are compatible with the GNU GPL for GNU software. Documentation for free software should be free documentation, so that people can redistribute it and improve it along with the software it describes.

To make it free documentation, you need to release it under a free documentation license. If you've started a new project and you're not sure what license to use, “How to choose a license for your own work” details our recommendations in an easy-to-follow guide. We also have a page that discusses the BSD License Problem. Lesser General Public License v2.1. This GNU Lesser General Public License counts as the successor of the GNU Library General Public License.

Lesser General Public License v2.1

For an explaination of why this change was necessary, read the Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library article. Lesser General Public License v3.0. Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Lesser General Public License v3.0

< Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below. Licence Publique Générale GNU Limitée, Version 2.1, Février 1999. General Public License v2.0. Table of Contents Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 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.

General Public License v2.0

Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. Licence Publique Générale GNU Version 2, Juin 1991. The GNU General Public License v3.0. Affero General Public License. Version 3, 19 November 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. < Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. Free Documentation License v1.3.