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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.
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