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META

  1. STOCKS: Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy).

Currency

Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

Naming and versioning

Meta

  1. STOCKS:Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

Meta

  1. STOCKS:Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

Stocks

Essential freedoms

In order to be recognized as "free" under this definition, a license must grant the following freedoms without limitation:

  • The freedom to study and apply the information: The licensee must not be restricted by clauses which limit their right to examine, alter or apply the information. The license may not, for example, restrict "reverse engineering", and it may not limit the application of knowledge gained from the work in any way.
  • The freedom to redistribute copies: Copies may be sold, swapped or given away for free, as part of a larger work, a collection, or independently. There must be no limit on the amount of information that can be copied. There must also not be any limit on who can copy the information or on where the information can be copied.
  • The freedom to distribute modified versions: In order to give everyone the ability to improve upon a work, the license must not limit the freedom to distribute a modified version, as above, regardless of the intent and purpose of such modifications. However, some restrictions may be applied to protect these essential freedoms, as well as the requirement of attribution (see below).

Meta

  1. STOCKS:Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

There are certain restrictions on the use or interchange of works that we do not feel impede on the essential freedoms enumerated above. These are described below.

Attribution

Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

Protection of freedoms

Intellectual property:Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy) The license may include clauses that strive to protect the essential freedoms of the work, such as:

  • transparent copies: a clause requiring all copies of the work to be in a transparent file format (documented and not encumbered by patents) which allows the work to be freely used in perpetuity
  • copyleft or "share-alike": a clause requiring that derivative works are entirely made available under a license which meets this definition
  • free from technical restrictions: a clause prohibiting the use of technical measures designed to prevent individuals to whom the work is distributed from exercising any of the freedoms described above

The license may not include clauses that strive to limit the essential freedoms of the work, such as:

  • usage restrictions: the license must not limit the licensee's actions beyond those which may have a plausible and direct impact on the essential freedoms of the work or its derivatives. Explicitly, it must not limit commercial use of the work.

Recommendations

Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

META

Australia 1852 Adelaide Pound.jpg act of $AUD=1,000.000=Meta with a currency meta aud. The display of the mobile phone meta shows the image being made. Author:(Daniel Benjiman Leahy)

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