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* Where find info on licence?
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See:
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 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses
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Also see:
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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licences
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 * http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences
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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences
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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license
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* How apply license?
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** Creative commons license.
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  This publication is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
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  license.
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  For full details of the license, please refer to the following:
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  Creative-commons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
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  Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007 Random Newbie, under a Creative Commons
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  Attribution-ShareAlike (3.0) license.
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  This book is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons
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  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license available from
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  http://www.creativecommons.org/. Accordingly, you are free to copy,
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  distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions:
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  (1) you must give the original author credit, (2) you may not use this work
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  for commercial purposes, and (3) you may not alter, transform, or build upon
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  this work.
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  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
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  License. A summary of the license is given below, followed by the full legal
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  text.
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  You are free:
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   · to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
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   · to make commercial use of the work
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  Under the following conditions:
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  Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
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  No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
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   · For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license
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   terms of this work.
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   · Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the
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   copyright holder.
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  Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
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  Creative Commons Legal Code
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  Attribution No-Derivs 2.0
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  ...
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*** Links to Creative Commons License.
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Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
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Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
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Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
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Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
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Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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Attribution (by)
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
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* What is FLOSS?
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software. See
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
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* What licences are FLOSS compotable?
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License name                    Version(s)/Copyright Date
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Academic Free License           2.0
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Apache Software License         1.0/1.1/2.0
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Apple Public Source License     2.0
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Artistic license                From Perl 5.8.0
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BSD license                     "July 22 1999"
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Common Public License           1.0
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GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)   2.0/2.1
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IBM Public License, Version     1.0
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Jabber Open Source License      1.0
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MIT License (As listed in file MIT-License.txt) -
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Mozilla Public License (MPL)    1.0/1.1
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Open Software License           2.0
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OpenSSL license (with original SSLeay license)  "2003" ("1998")
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PHP License                     3.0
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Python license (CNRI Python License)    -
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Python Software Foundation License      2.1.1
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Sleepycat License               "1999"
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W3C License                     "2001"
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X11 License                     "2001"
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Zlib/libpng License             -
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Zope Public License             2.0/2.1
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