This document summarizes the licenses, and your rights with regard to this project. It is recommended to read this before downloading or browsing the sources.
License | This document summarizes the licenses, and your rights with regard to this project. |
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Preface | The author’s opinion is that development should not be hindred by excessive restrictions and fees, and that his experience may be shared with others so that it may be of the most use possible. |
Source Licensing | Since parts of the sourcecode uses a copyleft-based license you have one of these options at your disposal |
Binary Licensing | Since the licenses involved allow full freedom over the binaries produced, you can distribute all binaries as you see fit. |
Licensing Morale | Since the licenses allows you to DO a lot, it doesnt mean you SHOULD. |
Foreign law | The author lives in a country where law does not support software patents, and where there are normally no restrictions on the use of encryption and related subjects. |
Credits | Marcel Sondaar |
The author’s opinion is that development should not be hindred by excessive restrictions and fees, and that his experience may be shared with others so that it may be of the most use possible.
Hence, most of the sourcecode is released into the public domain.
To ease the work, the author has used some third party libraries which add some restrictions of themselves.
To read up on the specific details, you should read the licenses involved
Since I am not a lawyer I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the content of this document. Contact a legal advisor if you need to be sure.
Since parts of the sourcecode uses a copyleft-based license you have one of these options at your disposal
You should always distribute the source in full, including copyright notes and related documents
If you are familiar with the LGPL license you may notice that you can keep the LGPL and public domain code separate: You can therefore remove the LGPL code and do with the rest as you please.
Since the licenses involved allow full freedom over the binaries produced, you can distribute all binaries as you see fit.
I do recommend that you include the ‘standard disclaimer’ as part of your distribution
Since the licenses allows you to DO a lot, it doesnt mean you SHOULD.
Among these, it is always appreciated when the original authors are credited. Words of appreciation are always welcome, and it would be great if you would keep the sources open for everybody so that more knowledge is released into the world.
The author lives in a country where law does not support software patents, and where there are normally no restrictions on the use of encryption and related subjects. You should be aware of the fact that your local laws may be less liberal and that using, distributing, and possibly even downloading may be illegal. For example, in the United States of America the software is known to infringe at least several software patents. As said before, I am not a lawyer, hence you should seek legal council when in doubt.
Marcel Sondaar
Bogdan Barbu
Martin ‘Solar’ Baute | For writing the Public Domain C library |
The FreeBasic Team | For providing one of the better compilers around |
Brendan Trotter | For being the best human source of information around, and for writing the SFS specification. |
Zach “Blizzarddog” Hogarth | The most prominent source of comments |
The osdev.org community | For sharing ideas and help (http://www.osdev.org) |