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<td class="toptitle">licensing terms</td>
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<br><p>This document describes the licensing terms regarding the <a href="http://www.openmamba.org/distribution">openmamba GNU/Linux distribution</a> and the <a href="http://www.openmamba.org">www.openmamba.org</a> web site.
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<h2>Web site contents</h2>
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<p>Contents from the main web site (<a href="/">www.openmamba.org</a>),
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the forum (<a href="forum.openmamba.org">forum.openmamba.org</a>) and the <a href="/distribution">mailing lists</a>,
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where not differntly specified, are released under a Creative Commons license:
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<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /></a><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5"> Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License</a>
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<p>Contents coming from users and community members do not represent an exception.
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<p>Copyright covered contents that is non complatible with a Creative Commons license will be immediately removed, as
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specified in the <a href="/community/privacy.html">Service acceptance conditions</a> subscribed during the registration on the
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web site.
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<h2>openmamba GNU/Linux distribution</h2>
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<p>The openmamba GNU/Linux distribution mostly consist of software released under the terms of one of the
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Open Source licenses approved by the <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open source initiative</a>.
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There are listed in <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical" target="_new">this page</a>.
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<p>The software parts whose copyright is owned by openmamba developers (e.g. mamba installer, distromatic, postplug)
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and thus the openmamba GNU/Linux distribution as a whole, are released under the
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<a href="http://katolaz.homeunix.net/gplv3/gplv3-it-final.html">GNU General Public License version 3</a> license.
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Some openmamba components previously released under the version 2 of the GPL license will progressively be updated to the new
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version.
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<br><br><a href="http://www.opensource.org"><img src="/images/Opensource-90x81.png" width="90" height="81" alt="open source initiative"></a>
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/"><img src="/images/gnu-90x95.png" alt="Free Software Foundation homepage" width="90" height="95"></a>
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<h3>Exceptions</h3>
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<p>The following components of the openmamba distribution represent an exception and for them the terms of a non Open Source license
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apply:
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<li>NVIDIA proprietary video drivers (distributable)
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<li>ATI proprietary video driver (distributable)
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<li>Sun Java 1.6 (DLJ license)
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<li>Adobe Flash plugin (not distributable but downloadable)
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<li>Win32 codecs (non distributed but downloadable)
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<li>public domain software
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