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* Where find info on licence?

See:

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

Also see:

 * 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