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A license or licence in the sphere of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a document, contract or agreement giving permission or the 'right' to a legally-definable entity to do something (such as manufacture a product or to use a service), or to apply something (such as a trademark), with the objective of achieving commercial gain. Typically, the party giving the permission is referred to as the 'licensor' and the party receiving the licence as the 'licencee' or 'licensee'. To be able to license a right, the licensor must have legal title or 'proprietary right' to it. The licensor typically offers the license with specific limitations, such as the period of use, the territory of use, etc. Both the licensor and the licensee have specific obligations which is expressed in the body of the agreement or is expressed in the law of the country or region or an international covenant which governs the performance of the agreement.
In law, the document is the evidence of a license to be distinguished from the underlying license which is the actual permission to an act in a way that would be otherwise unlawful. Originally in reference to property, a license was the right of an individual to enter upon the property of another to do an act that would have otherwise been considered illegal as a trespass, such as walking in the woods, hunting game or swimming in the lake. To be distinguished from a license coupled with an interest which is an irrevocable license that granted some interest in land or in a chattel. Such a license could be enforced with an injunction. Licenses can be gratuitous, revokable at will (sometimes called a bare license) or a type of bailment.
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as of tomorrow I'll be down to zero fishing licenses, need to renew OR ASAP, going to wait until spring for WA
chwilliams (Chris Williams) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:40:29 -0000
as of tomorrow I'll be down to zero fishing licenses, need to renew OR ASAP, going to wait until spring for WA
Does Vimeo trip on "licenses owned by WMG" as much as Youtube??? smh
MaGestiKLeGenD (Magestik Legend) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:28:51 -0000
Does Vimeo trip on "licenses owned by WMG" as much as Youtube??? smh
Buy any Web Hosting Plan or Reseller Hosting plan, and win licenses WHMCS Free http://bit.ly/7SO63h 31/12/2009 - 20:15:03
webhost12623112 (Web Hosting Free) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:15:17 -0000
Buy any Web Hosting Plan or Reseller Hosting plan, and win licenses WHMCS Free http://bit.ly/7SO63h 31/12/2009 - 20:15:03
Shit yall be easy the Feds r out and I know some of yall drivin on suspended licenses lol
imJuno (Juno ) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:01:52 -0000
Shit yall be easy the Feds r out and I know some of yall drivin on suspended licenses lol
DFG Reminds Anglers to Purchase 2010 Fishing Licenses: The Department of Fish and Game reminds anglers to purchase ... http://bit.ly/4oP8HU
justgofishin (JustGoFishin.com) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:56:02 -0000
DFG Reminds Anglers to Purchase 2010 Fishing Licenses: The Department of Fish and Game reminds anglers to purchase ... http://bit.ly/4oP8HU
@pacificIT is there some sort of law about software licenses and gift cards? Like how you can't use a CC to buy a gift card in Japan?
sandbaggerone (sandbaggerone) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:54:21 -0000
@pacificIT is there some sort of law about software licenses and gift cards? Like how you can't use a CC to buy a gift card in Japan?
Open Source Software Licensing Page - Some very interesting articles on free software licensing: history, forms, and problems, seen from a commercial view. Links to some license texts and important open source sites.
Affero - General Public License - Copyleft license, derived from the GNU-GPL, designed to protect software distributed as web services.
Meta Description: [ Affero is a service which enables personal ratings and donations to non-profit organizations on behalf of individuals who freely share with others. ]
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Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) - For Ghostscript, by Aladdin Enterprises.
Amoeba copyright notice - A free software OS.
Amulet License Agreement - CMU Amulet Toolkit License Agreement.
Apache Server License - Also in the source code.
Apple/Disney: Squeak license - Project and license ran unchanged and uninterrupted even during transition to different corporation.
Apple: Apple Public Source License (APSL) - Apple's license for software released as source code.
Bixoft Public License - A proposal for an Open Source license that clearly distinguishes between software programs and programming tools.
BSD: 4.4BSD Copyright - License for 4.4BSD.
BSD: FreeBSD Copyright - License for FreeBSD operating system.
BSD: NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution - License patterned after FreeBSD Copyright.
BSD: OpenBSD Copyright Policy - License and background on Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group copyrights.
Meta Description: [ the OpenBSD copyright policy page ]
Creative Commons - A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
Meta Description: [ Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. ]
Debian Social Contract - License for Debian GNU/Linux.
E Licenses - Mozilla or Mozilla compatible, for E programming language.
Meta Description: [ E: Cryptographic Capabilities for Distributed Smart Contracting ]
eCos License Overview - Summary of license for Red Hat eCos operating system.
eCos: Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL) - Variant of Netscape PL.
Meta Description: [ Information concerning the embedded Configurable operating system (eCos). ]
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EFF Archive: Intellectual Property: Open Licenses - Electronic Frontier Foundation page on licenses, includes EFF Open Audio License (OAL).
Meta Description: [ Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect your digital rights. ]
Eiffel: ISE Free Eiffel Library License (IFELL) - For the EiffelBase library.
Meta Description: [ Home page for object technology, Eiffel, software reuse, components, O-O training and consulting, with extensive online documentation,tutorials, articles and manuals. ]
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Freshmeat - Listings of browseable licenses and articles.
Meta Description: [ freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform open source software. Thousands of applications are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new code are added daily. ]
GNU Free Documentation License - A version of the GPL for reference material.
GNU General Public License (GPL) - One standard for licensing free software.
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - Formerly: GNU Library GPL.
GNU: List of Licenses - Various licenses and comments about them.
IBM - Common Public License (CPL) - Open source software license.
Meta Description: [ Find how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products. Topic areas include Eclipse, Globus/Grid, Apache, Derby/Cloudscape, Linux, scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python, as well as broader discussions on l... ]
IBM Public License - Big Blue's Open Source License.
Meta Description: [ Find how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products. Topic areas include Eclipse, Globus/Grid, Apache, Derby/Cloudscape, Linux, scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python, as well as broader discussions on l... ]
LaTeX Project Public License - Particularly suited for TeX-related programs.
Liberal Source Software (LSS) - Hybrid licensing model, between free and commercial software licenses.
License information for Xinu software - License for the XINU operating system
Licensing conditions for OCaml - OCaml is released under the LGPL.
Lua Copyright notice - From Brazil, programming language framework.
Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Plan 9 Open Source license agreement
Mozart License Agreement - Mozart: an implementation of Oz 3 programming language.
Mozilla and Netscape Public Licenses - Describes the licensing policy of the Mozilla Foundation, with the full texts of the various licenses, and an FAQ.
MySQL - Complex hybrid license: public domain, GPL, LGPL, Open Source, commercial.
Netscape: Mozilla Public License (MozPL) version 1.0 - Follows the Debian Free Software guidelines.
Open Group Public License - Open Motif Graphical GUI Software, Public End User License.
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Open Music License - Music-equivalent to the General Public License.
Open Source Initiative - Licenses - Copies of licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Meta Description: [ The Open Source Home Page ]
OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - Not a license itself, but a definition of what conditions a license must fulfill in order to be termed an Open Source license.
PHP Licence Information - Covers licensing issues for developers distributing applications in PHP. Includes links to annotated version of the relevant licenses and other related resources.
Python Copyright - Open source compliant, but not fully GPL compatible, the only incompatibility is inclusion of a choice-of-law clause.
Quick Reference Guide - A chart comparing attributes of major licenses, including the option to select your bias.
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Ricoh Source Code Public License - Ricoh Company, Ltd., makes communication and office automation systems.
RTEMS License Information - RTEMS open source real-time operating system uses GNU Public License (GPL), except for some special, very limited exceptions.
Ruby License - Dual terms: use GPL terms or its own terms.
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SFL License Agreement - Covers iMatix Corp., Standard Function Library (C/C++), its source code, documentation, executable files.
The Artistic License - Perl package license.
Meta Description: [ The Open Source Home Page ]
Trolltech: Q Public License (QPL) - License for the Qt Free Edition.
Meta Description: [ Trolltech: Leader in cross-platform C++ GUI software development and embedded Linux solutions ]
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing - Full text of the book by Andrew M. St. Laurent.
Vita Nuova Inferno Subscription License - Fee based, partly open source, for Lucent network OS.
W3C IPR Software Notice - W3C = World Wide Web Consortium, one of the Internet's main standard-setting bodies.
x-kernel Copyright Notice - Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona.
Zope Public License (ZPL) - Patterned after Apache license.
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