OpenLR™ licenses
OpenLR™ is made available on the basis of "copyleft" principle. This enables programmers to contribute, improving and maintaining the "open standard". The OpenLR™ reference implementation as well as the tools MapViewer and OTK are licensed under the Apache v2.0.
The foundations of selected Software Licensing Model are:- The freedom to use the software in proprietary programs
- The freedom to use the software for any purpose including commercial use
- The freedom to change the software to suit your needs, including with own code which is not open source code
- The open source code (original and modified) should always include the terms of use and the "owner of the changes" and this should never be deleted
- No liability can be claimed from initiators and contributors
The source code is published "as is", so no warranty is given by
any of the initiators or contributors to the initiative to any user of
the code.
The license to partners asserting patents
is withdrawn. The license is subject to a non-assertion clause.
Whitepaper license
The OpenLR™ whitepaper and the reference implementation of the OpenLR™ system are published under common open source licenses.
The OpenLR™ whitepaper is licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. To view a
copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San
Francisco, California 94105, USA.
The license text
can also be downloaded as a PDF document or can
be accessed online.
Software license
The OpenLR™ reference implementation as well as the tools MapViewer and OTK are free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache v2.0 license and the extra condition for OpenLR.The license text can also be downloaded as a PDF document or can be accessed online.