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Educational Community License 2.0
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Per SPDX.org, this license is OSI certifified. The Educational Community
License version 2.0 ("ECL") consists of the Apache 2.0 license, modified to
change the scope of the patent grant in section 3 to be specific to the
needs of the education communities using this license. The url included in
the boilerplate notice does not work. (15/10/10)
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Educational Community License
Version 2.0, April 2007
http://www.osedu.org/licenses/
The Educational Community License version 2.0 ("ECL") consists of the Apache 2.0
license, modified to change the scope of the patent grant in section 3 to be
specific to the needs of the education communities using this license. The
original Apache 2.0 license can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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