eduSTORE is free software. The source code of all eduSTORE-components will be available as free software under open source license (presumably GPL) for the general public. This will allow anyone to use the eduSTORE-system for any means, to study it, to modify it and to publish it in its original or derivative version.

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1. The work can be used for any means and without any restrictions. This explicitly includes commercial purposes.
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3. The operating principles of a work are free for studying, and it is legal to modify it to one's own needs.
4. Even the derivative version of a work correspondent to Permission 3 can be distributed under the conditions of Permission 2, and the modified source code must be accompanied. Nobody is committed to distribute derivative copies, but if a derivative copy is distributed, then it must be under the rules of Permission 2.