The following are the limitations of the license:
- It is limited to software production only.
- It is based primarily on copyright law, although it acknowledges possible interference with other laws, mostly patent laws.
- It does not, in fact, distinguish between an author and his sponsor but legally protects a rights holder. In this respect it follows copyright law entirely.
- The license text is copyrighted itself and thus cannot be freely used to build other licenses.
Open Publication License
Location: http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
Excerpt
“The Open Publication works may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, in any medium physical or electronic, provided that the terms of this license are adhered to, and that this license or an incorporation of it by reference (with any options elected by the author(s) and/or publisher) is displayed in the reproduction (...)
Commercial redistribution of Open Publication-licensed material is permitted (...)
Any publication in standard (paper) book form shall require the citation of the original publisher and author (...)
The copyright to each Open Publication is owned by its author(s) or designee (...)
If any part of this license is found to be unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the remaining portions of the license remain in force (...)
All modified versions of documents covered by this license, including translations, anthologies, compilations and partial documents, must meet the following requirements:
