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Open Source License and Usage Overview

Open source components and licenses used in Stack Overflow.

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Written by Joel Bradley
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Components

Animate.css

http://daneden.me/animate
Licensed under the MIT license
Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Eden

Bootstrap v3.3.2

http://getbootstrap.com
Copyright 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc.
Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)

bootstrap tab collapse plugin

the mit license (mit)
copyright (c) 2014 flatlogic.com
permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "software"), to deal in the software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the software, and to permit persons to whom the software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
source: https://github.com/flatlogic/bootstrap-tabcollapse

Chess Replayer 1.2.0

Copyright (c) 2012 Andrew Hoy
http://github.com/andrewphoy/chess-replayer
MIT License

CodeMirror

copyright (c) by Marijn Haverbeke and others Distributed under an MIT license: http://codemirror.net/LICENSE
This is CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net), a code editor implemented in JavaScript on top of the browser's DOM.
You can find some technical background for some of the code below at http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/#cm-internals.

commonmark.js - CommomMark in JavaScript

Copyright (C) 2014 John MacFarlane
License: BSD3

Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
License: Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:

dat.globe

Javascript WebGL Globe Toolkit
http://dataarts.github.com/dat.globe
Copyright 2011 Data Arts Team, Google Creative Lab
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 'License'); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

D3.v2.js

TERMS OF USE - EASING EQUATIONS
Open source under the BSD License.
Copyright 2001 Robert Penner

diff v2.0.1

Software License Agreement (BSD License)
Copyright (c) 2009-2015, Kevin Decker <[email protected]>

EventEmitter v4.0.1 - git.io/gTW-jg

Oliver Caldwell
MIT license

EventEmitter v3.1.4

https://github.com/Wolfy87/EventEmitter
Licensed under the MIT license:
Oliver Caldwell (olivercaldwell.co.uk)

FancyBox - jQuery Plugin

Examples and documentation at: http://fancybox.net
Copyright (c) 2008 - 2010 Janis Skarnelis
That said, it is hardly a one-person project. Many people have submitted bugs, code, and offered their advice freely. Their support is greatly appreciated.
Version: 1.3.4 (11/11/2010)
Requires: jQuery v1.3+
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

History.js jQuery Adapter

author Benjamin Arthur Lupton [email protected]
copyright 2010-2011 Benjamin Arthur Lupton [email protected]
license New BSD License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/>

jQuery JavaScript Library v1.7.1

http://jquery.com
Distributed in whole under the terms of the MIT
Copyright 2010, John Resig
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Includes Sizzle.js
http://sizzlejs.com
Copyright 2010, The Dojo Foundation
Released under the MIT and BSD Licenses.
jQuery plugin for getting position of cursor in textarea
license under Apache license
author Bevis Zhao ([email protected], http://bevis.me)

jQuery Color Animations

Copyright 2007 John Resig
Released under the MIT and GPL licenses.

jQuery Autocomplete plugin 1.1pre

Copyright (c) 2009 Jörn Zaefferer
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Revision: $Id: jquery.autocomplete.js 5785 2008-07-12 10:37:33Z joern.zaefferer

jQuery Autocomplete plugin 1.1

Copyright (c) 2009 Jörn Zaefferer
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Revision: $Id: jquery.autocomplete.js 15 2009-08-22 10:30:27Z joern.zaefferer

jQuery UI Autocomplete 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Autocomplete#theming

jquery.cookie.js

Cookie plugin
Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

jquery.sparkline 1.6

http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline
Licensed under the New BSD License - see above site for details

Jquery.event.drag.js

v1.5
Copyright (c) 2008, Three Dub Media (http://threedubmedia.com)
Licensed under the MIT License ~ http://threedubmedia.googlecode.com/files/MIT-LICENSE.txt

jQuery.ScrollTo

Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Ariel Flesler - aflesler(at)gmail(dot)com | http://flesler.blogspot.com
Dual licensed under MIT and GPL.
author Ariel Flesler
version 1.4.5 BETA

jQuery UI CSS Framework 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Theming/API

jQuery UI Menu 1.8.16

Copyright 2010, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Menu#theming

jQuery UI Datepicker 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses. http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker#theming

jQuery UI Progressbar 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Progressbar#theming

jQuery UI 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI

jQuery UI Widget 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Widget

jQuery UI Position 1.8.16

Copyright 2011, AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
http://jquery.org/license
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Position

jStat - JavaScript Statistical LibraryCopyright (c) 2011

This document is licensed as free software under the terms of the
MIT License:
Chosen v1.4.2 | (c) 2011-2015 by Harvest | MIT License, ttps://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/blob/master/LICENSE.md

JTab - Javascript/CSS Guitar Chord and Tab Notation for the Web.

Version 1.3.1
Written by Paul Gallagher (http://tardate.com), 2009. (original version and maintainer)
Contributions:
Jason Ong (https://github.com/jasonong)
Bruno Bornsztein (https://github.com/bborn)
Binary Bit LAN (https://github.com/binarybitlan)
See:
http://jtab.tardate.com : more information on availability, configuration and use.
http://github.com/tardate/jtab/tree/master : source code repository, wiki, documentation
* This library also depends on the following two libraries that must be loaded for it to work:
jQuery - http://www.jquery.com
Raphael - http://raphaeljs.com
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

klass: a classical JS OOP façade

https://github.com/ded/klass
License MIT (c) Dustin Diaz & Jacob Thornton 2012

Konami-JS

Code: http://konami-js.googlecode.com
Examples: http://www.snaptortoise.com/konami-js
Copyright (c) 2009 George Mandis (georgemandis.com, snaptortoise.com)
Version: 1.4.0 (1/21/2013)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Tested in: Safari 4+, Google Chrome 4+, Firefox 3+, IE7+, Mobile Safari 2.2.1 and Dolphin Browser

Less - Leaner CSS v2.5.3

http://lesscss.org
Copyright (c) 2009-2015, Alexis Sellier [email protected]
Licensed under the Apache 2 License.

LESS - Leaner CSS v1.7.0

http://lesscss.org
Copyright (c) 2009-2014, Alexis Sellier [email protected]
Licensed under the Apache v2 License.

MarkdownSharp

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
* Markdown.NET
Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Milan Negovan
http://www.aspnetresources.com
http://aspnetresources.com/blog/markdown_announced.aspx
* MarkdownSharp
Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Jeff Atwood
http://stackoverflow.com
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog
http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp
* History: Milan ported the Markdown processor to C#. He granted license to me so I can open source it and let the community contribute to and improve MarkdownSharp.

Mathjax-editing.js and mathjax-editing.beta.js

https://www.mathjax.org/#docs
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Stack Exchange
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Modernizr v2.7.1

www.modernizr.com
Copyright (c) Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton
Available under the BSD and MIT licenses: www.modernizr.com/license
Authors Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton
Contributors Ryan Seddon, Ben Alman

Prettify

Copyright (C) 2006 Google Inc.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

SamlSchema.cs

Copyright (C) 2012 CoverMyMeds
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
This file is taken from https://github.com/covermymeds/saml-http-post-reference/blob/master/CMMSAMLLibrary/SAMLSchema.cs

Simple OpenID Plugin

http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector
This code is licenced under the New BSD License.

The Porter2 stemming algorithm

author: Kamil Bartocha
email: crow2 (at) poczta.fm
version: 1.0.0
date: 11.04.2007
This is a C# implementation of the Porter2 algorithm as described on:
http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stemmer.html
LICENSE:
* Copyright 2007 Kamil Bartocha. All rights reserved.
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY KAMIL BARTOCHA ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

TypeWatch 2.0

Original by Denny Ferrassoli / Refactored by Charles Christolini
Examples/Docs: www.dennydotnet.com
Copyright(c) 2007 Denny Ferrassoli - DennyDotNet.com
Coprright(c) 2008 Charles Christolini - BinaryPie.com
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Venn.js

https://github.com/benfred/venn.js
Copyright (C) 2013 Ben Frederickson
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

WOW - v0.1.4 - 2014-02-12

https://wowjs.uk/docs.html
Copyright (c) 2014 Matthieu Aussaguel; Licensed MIT


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