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Where find info on licence issue?

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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

List of FOSS licences

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BSD:

* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

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

MIT:

GPL:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReportingViolation

  Reporting Violation

LGPL.

ZLIB.

MPL (Mozilla public license)

CPL (Common Public License):

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

Compration of FOSS licences

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Need to hold author signature.

  This meen that you can not remove notice by whos done original work.

Need to mark changes.

  This meen that you must say that part is original product that part is your

  changes.

  Typically this can be done by distributing original sources and patches for

  them or describe what source file you cange and how (for example this

  sometimes done in CHANGELOG files).

  In any way when precedent occur you must prove that part of work is your.

Need rename derivative work.

  This meen that you derivative work must have another name that original.

  Usually author in such way hold their users from derivative foreign toys based

  on thier work.

Copyleft.

  This meen that any derivative work must be covered by save licence as

  original.

Licence can be changed.

  This meen is can text of original licence changed.

How to apply license?

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Creative commons license, put to file::

  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?

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Free/Libre/Open Source Software. See

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

What licences are FLOSS compotable?

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  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.

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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

    TRIPS