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INSTRUCTIONS:
To apply the template(¹) specify the years of copyright (separated by comma, not as a range), the legal names of the copyright holders, and the real names of the authors if different. Avoid adding text.
RATIONALE:
This licence is apt for any kind of work (such as source code, fonts, documentation, graphics, sound etc.) and the preferred terms for work added to MirBSD. It has been drafted as universally usable equivalent of the “historic permission notice”⁽²⁾ adapted to Europen law because in some (droit d’auteur) countries authors cannot disclaim all liabilities. Compliance to DFSG⁽³⁾ 1.1 is ensured, and GPLv2 compatibility is asserted unless advertising clauses are used. The MirOS Licence is certified to conform to OKD⁽⁴⁾ 1.0 and OSD⁽⁵⁾ 1.9, and qualifies as a Free Software⁽⁶⁾ and also Free Documentation⁽⁷⁾ licence and is included in some relevant lists⁽⁸⁾⁽⁹⁾⁽¹⁰⁾.
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REFERENCES:
① also at http://mirbsd.de/MirOS-Licence
② http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php
③ http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
④ http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0
⑤ http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
⑥ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
⑦ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
⑧ http://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/lizenzcenter.html
⑨ http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses
⑩ http://opensource.org/licenses/miros.html