
Educational Community License, Version 2.0
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Educational Community License

Version 2.0, April 2007

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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.
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