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     3 * Where find info on licence?
       
     4 
       
     5 See:
       
     6 
       
     7  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses
       
     8 
       
     9 Also see:
       
    10 
       
    11  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licences
       
    12  * http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
       
    13  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences
       
    14  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences
       
    15  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license
       
    16 
       
    17 * How apply license?
       
    18 
       
    19 ** Creative commons license.
       
    20 
       
    21 Put in file or in text:
       
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    23   This publication is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
       
    24   license.
       
    25   For full details of the license, please refer to the following:
       
    26   Creative-commons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
       
    27 
       
    28 or like this:
       
    29 
       
    30   Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007 Random Newbie, under a Creative Commons
       
    31   Attribution-ShareAlike (3.0) license.
       
    32 
       
    33 or like this:
       
    34 
       
    35   This book is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons
       
    36   Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license available from
       
    37   http://www.creativecommons.org/. Accordingly, you are free to copy,
       
    38   distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions:
       
    39   (1) you must give the original author credit, (2) you may not use this work
       
    40   for commercial purposes, and (3) you may not alter, transform, or build upon
       
    41   this work.
       
    42 
       
    43 or like this:
       
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    45   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
       
    46   License. A summary of the license is given below, followed by the full legal
       
    47   text.
       
    48 
       
    49   You are free:
       
    50    · to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
       
    51    · to make commercial use of the work
       
    52   Under the following conditions:
       
    53   Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
       
    54   No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
       
    55    · For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license
       
    56    terms of this work.
       
    57    · Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the
       
    58    copyright holder.
       
    59   Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
       
    60 
       
    61   Creative Commons Legal Code
       
    62 
       
    63   Attribution No-Derivs 2.0
       
    64   ...
       
    65 
       
    66 *** Links to Creative Commons License.
       
    67 
       
    68 Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
       
    69   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
       
    70 Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
       
    71   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
       
    72 Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
       
    73   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
       
    74 Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
       
    75   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
       
    76 Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
       
    77   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
       
    78 Attribution (by)
       
    79   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
       
    80 
       
    81 * What is FLOSS?
       
    82 
       
    83 Free/Libre/Open Source Software. See
       
    84 
       
    85   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
       
    86 
       
    87 * What licences are FLOSS compotable?
       
    88 
       
    89 License name                    Version(s)/Copyright Date
       
    90 Academic Free License           2.0
       
    91 Apache Software License         1.0/1.1/2.0
       
    92 Apple Public Source License     2.0
       
    93 Artistic license                From Perl 5.8.0
       
    94 BSD license                     "July 22 1999"
       
    95 Common Public License           1.0
       
    96 GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)   2.0/2.1
       
    97 IBM Public License, Version     1.0
       
    98 Jabber Open Source License      1.0
       
    99 MIT License (As listed in file MIT-License.txt) -
       
   100 Mozilla Public License (MPL)    1.0/1.1
       
   101 Open Software License           2.0
       
   102 OpenSSL license (with original SSLeay license)  "2003" ("1998")
       
   103 PHP License                     3.0
       
   104 Python license (CNRI Python License)    -
       
   105 Python Software Foundation License      2.1.1
       
   106 Sleepycat License               "1999"
       
   107 W3C License                     "2001"
       
   108 X11 License                     "2001"
       
   109 Zlib/libpng License             -
       
   110 Zope Public License             2.0/2.1
       
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