The Educational Community License is one of the special purpose licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. The license is used by certain educational institutions while distributing software.
Rights
The license provides certain rights to a person receiving a software, documentation or other materials under the agreement.  The license comes into effect as soon as a person obtains, uses or copies the work provided under the license.
The following rights are provided over the work under the license:

• Right to use;
• Right to copy;
• Right to modify;
• Right to merge;
• Right to publish;
• Right to distribute; and
• Right to sublicense.

Conditions
A person exercising rights under the license is required to abide by the following conditions:

• Make the full text of the Educational Community License available in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work;
• Keep intact any pre-existing intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or terms and conditions of the license;
• Provide notice of any changes or modifications to the work provided under the license, including the date the changes were made; and
• Distribute any modifications of the work provided under the license in such a manner as to avoid any confusion with the original work of the copyright holders.

No Warranty and Liability
The license does not provide an express or implied warranty with regard to a work. Furthermore, the person providing the work under the license cannot be made liable for any activity with regard to the software.

Publicity
The license prohibits the use of the name or trademark of the person providing a work under the license by any person without prior permission.