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Plain English Copyright Notice |
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This file is not intended to be the actual License. The reason this file |
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exists is that we here are programmers and engineers. We aren't lawyers. We |
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provide licenses that we THINK say the right things, but we have our own |
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intentions at heart. This is a plain-english explanation of what those |
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intentions are, and if you follow them you will be within the "spirit" of |
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the license. |
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The intent is for us to enjoy writing software that is useful to us (the |
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AUTHORS) and allow others to use it freely and also benefit from the work we |
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put into making it. We don't want to restrict others using it. They should |
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not *HAVE* to make the source code of the applications they write that |
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simply link to these libraries (be that statically or dynamically), or for |
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them to be limited as to what license they choose to use (be it open, closed |
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or anything else). But we would like to know you are using these libraries. |
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We simply would like to know that it has been useful to someone. This is why |
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we ask for acknowledgement of some sort. |
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You can do what you want with the source of this software - it doesn't |
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matter. We still have it here for ourselves and it is open and free to use |
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and download and play with. It can't be taken away. We don't really mind what |
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you do with the source to your software. We would simply like to know that |
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you are using it - especially if it makes it to a commerical product. If you |
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simply e-mail all the AUTHORS (see COPYING and AUTHORS files) telling us, and |
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then make sure you include a paragraph or page in the manual for the product |
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with the copyright notice and state that you used this software, we will be |
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very happy. If you want to contribute back modifications and fixes you may have |
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made we will welcome those too with open arms (generally). If you want help |
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with changes needed, ports needed or features to be added, arrangements can |
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be easily made with some dialogue. |
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Carsten Haitzler <raster@rasterman.com>
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