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Topic: license
Definition:

  • a legal document giving official permission to do something freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) excessive freedom
  • lack of due restraint
  • "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant
  • "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization authorize officially
  • "I am licensed to practice law in this state"

    Related tag cloud:

  • licensing
  • licence
  • training
  • copyright
  • law
  • software
  • patent
  • school
  • education
  • registration
  • intellectual property
  • trademark
  • exam
  • driving
  • id
  • legal
  • auto
  • driver
  • florida
  • permit
  • licenses
    • Resources:

    GNU Project: Free Software Foundation: FSF
    Official list of GNU Free software.
    http://www.gnu.org/

    Creative Commons
    A non-profit organization which designs legal and technological tools to allow creators to designate their works as accessible in the public domain.
    http://www.creativecommons.org

    The Open Source Page
    The Open Source Initiative is dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. The phrase `open source' has been registered as a certification mark. You can examine the Open Source Definition, which defines some essential properties that Open Source licenses will have. You can read about software that qualifies and our branding program.
    http://www.opensource.org/

    OpenContent
    Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.
    http://www.opencontent.org/