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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/license_afl.rst b/user_guide_src/source/license_afl.rst deleted file mode 100644 index ca39be9b6..000000000 --- a/user_guide_src/source/license_afl.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,245 +0,0 @@ -################################### -Academic Free License ("AFL") v 3.0 -################################### - -This Academic Free License (the "License") applies to any original work of -authorship (the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the -following licensing notice adjacent to the copyright notice for the Original -Work: - -*Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0* - - -***************************** -1) Grant of Copyright License -***************************** - -Licensor grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable -license, for the duration of the copyright, to do the following: - - *a)* to reproduce the Original Work in copies, either alone or as part of - a collective work; - - *b)* to translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange the - Original Work, thereby creating derivative works ("Derivative Works") - based upon the Original Work; - - *c)* to distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work and - Derivative Works to the public, *under any license of your choice that - does not contradict the terms and conditions, including Licensor's - reserved rights and remedies, in this Academic Free License*; - - *d)* to perform the Original Work publicly; and - - *e)* to display the Original Work publicly. - - -************************** -2) Grant of Patent License -************************** - -Licensor grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable -license, under patent claims owned or controlled by the Licensor that are -embodied in the Original Work as furnished by the Licensor, for the duration -of the patents, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have made, and import the -Original Work and Derivative Works. - - -******************************* -3) Grant of Source Code License -******************************* - -The term "Source Code" means the preferred form of the Original Work for -making modifications to it and all available documentation describing how to -modify the Original Work. 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