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OpenContent License (OPL)
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URL: http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
Type: Generic
Media: Generic
Country: International
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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://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
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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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