SUMMARY:
may distribute exact copies
may charge for support, for warranty, or for distribution (except
for distribution over the Internet)
May change, provided:
you document the changes
must licence under this licence
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OpenContent License (OPL)
Version 1.0, July 14, 1998.
This document outlines the principles underlying the OpenContent (OC)
movement and may be redistributed
provided it remains unaltered. For legal purposes, this document is the
license under which OpenContent is made
available for use.
The original version of this document may be found at
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
LICENSE
Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distributing, and Modifying
Items other than copying, distributing, and modifying the Content with
which this license was distributed (such as
using, etc.) are outside the scope of this license.
1. You may copy and distribute exact replicas of the OpenContent (OC) as
you receive it, in any medium,
provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an
appropriate copyright notice and
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the OC a copy of this License along with
the OC. You may at your option charge
a fee for the media and/or handling involved in creating a unique copy of
the OC for use offline, you may at your
option offer instructional support for the OC in exchange for a fee, or
you may at your option offer warranty in
exchange for a fee. You may not charge a fee for the OC itself. You may
not charge a fee for the sole service of
providing access to and/or use of the OC via a network (e.g. the
Internet), whether it be via the world wide web,
FTP, or any other method.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the OpenContent or any portion
of it, thus forming works based on the
Content, and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of
Section 1 above, provided that you also
meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified content to carry prominent notices stating
that you changed it, the exact nature
and content of the changes, and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole
or in part contains or is derived from the
OC or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all
third parties under the terms of this License,
unless otherwise permitted under applicable Fair Use law.
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable
sections of that work are not derived
from the OC, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves, then this License,
and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as
separate works. But when you distribute
the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the OC, the
distribution of the whole must be on the
terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to
the entire whole, and thus to each and
every part regardless of who wrote it. Exceptions are made to this
requirement to release modified works free of
charge under this license only in compliance with Fair Use law where
applicable.
3. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed
it. However, nothing else grants you
permission to copy, distribute or modify the OC. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this
License. Therefore, by distributing or translating the OC, or by deriving
works herefrom, you indicate your
acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for
copying, distributing or translating the
OC.
NO WARRANTY
4. BECAUSE THE OPENCONTENT (OC) IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
WARRANTY FOR THE
OC, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE
STATED IN WRITING
THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE OC "AS IS" WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE
ENTIRE RISK OF
USE OF THE OC IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE OC PROVE FAULTY, INACCURATE, OR
OTHERWISE
UNACCEPTABLE YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
5. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY
COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MIRROR AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE
THE OC AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
OC, EVEN IF SUCH
HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
