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See:

 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licences

 * http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license

* How apply license?

** Creative commons license.

Put in file or in text:

  This publication is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

  license.

  For full details of the license, please refer to the following:

  Creative-commons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

or like this:

  Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007 Random Newbie, under a Creative Commons

  Attribution-ShareAlike (3.0) license.

or like this:

  This book is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license available from

  http://www.creativecommons.org/. Accordingly, you are free to copy,

  distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions:

  (1) you must give the original author credit, (2) you may not use this work

  for commercial purposes, and (3) you may not alter, transform, or build upon

  this work.

or like this:

  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs

  License. A summary of the license is given below, followed by the full legal

  text.

  You are free:

   · to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work

   · to make commercial use of the work

  Under the following conditions:

  Attribution. You must give the original author credit.

  No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

   · For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license

   terms of this work.

   · Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the

   copyright holder.

  Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

  Creative Commons Legal Code

  Attribution No-Derivs 2.0

  ...

*** Links to Creative Commons License.

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode

Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

Attribution (by)

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

* What is FLOSS?

Free/Libre/Open Source Software. See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software

* What licences are FLOSS compotable?

License name                    Version(s)/Copyright Date

Academic Free License           2.0

Apache Software License         1.0/1.1/2.0

Apple Public Source License     2.0

Artistic license                From Perl 5.8.0

BSD license                     "July 22 1999"

Common Public License           1.0

GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)   2.0/2.1

IBM Public License, Version     1.0

Jabber Open Source License      1.0

MIT License (As listed in file MIT-License.txt) -

Mozilla Public License (MPL)    1.0/1.1

Open Software License           2.0

OpenSSL license (with original SSLeay license)  "2003" ("1998")

PHP License                     3.0

Python license (CNRI Python License)    -

Python Software Foundation License      2.1.1

Sleepycat License               "1999"

W3C License                     "2001"

X11 License                     "2001"

Zlib/libpng License             -

Zope Public License             2.0/2.1

* Copyright low.

See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_treaties

                List of parties to international copyright agreements.

** Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

Came into force 1887-12-05.

  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=15

                List of country where Berne convention in force.

** Universal Copyright Convention, Geneva Act (UCC Geneva).

Came into force 1955-09-16.

** Universal Copyright Convention, Paris Act (UCC Paris).

Came into force 1974-07-10.

** World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty.

  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html

                Text of convention.

  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16

                List of country where WTC convention in force.

** Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

Membership in TRIPS coincides with membership in the World Trade Organization.

  http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_01_e.htm

                Text of convention.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspects_of_Intellectual_Property_Rights