|
The Code Project Open License (CPOL) is a software license published by The Code Project, a community site for software developers. The license is mainly applied to content that is being published on the site. Its main points subject to the terms of the license are:〔 *Source Code and Executable Files can be used in commercial applications; *Source Code and Executable Files can be redistributed; and *Source Code can be modified to create derivative works; *No claim of suitability, guarantee, or any warranty whatsoever is provided. The software is provided "as-is"; *The Article(s) accompanying the Work may not be distributed or republished without the Author's consent. The license itself grants copyright and patent protection to the developer. The Code Project has a comparison of the CPOL to open-source licenses on their site. Further, the license provides a distinction and clarification between the source code available for download and the source code's author's articles and writings about that content. The "Open" in the name Code Project Open License refers to the license offering accessibility to the software's source code. The license is not "Open" as defined by the Open Source Initiative because it places restrictions on how the software can be used, such as forbidding its use in illegal, immoral or improper material as well as a prohibition on commercial distribution of the code in isolation. The CPOL is strictly for source code that is gratis, but is not recognized as a free or open license by the Free Software Foundation due to the restrictions within the CPOL forbidding usage for illegal purposes and the restrictions on selling the code without coupling it to a larger application. The license is thus incompatible with the GNU General Public License and some other free software licenses. The Apache Project does not accept code under the license. == See also == *Free software licence *Open-source software 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Code Project Open License」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|