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License
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Copyright (C) 2013 Chris Laskey
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright holders
shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization.
The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include
the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by
Chris Laskey (http://chrislaskey.com)", in the same place and form as other
third-party acknowledgments. Alternatively, this acknowledgment may appear in
the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party
acknowledgments.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Commentary on License Choice
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Though I see the appeal of copy-left licensing, I've decided to release all code
under the more permissive MIT license. The upshot is enjoy the code, modify it,
include in proprietary software, relicense it, etc. The only things I ask are:
- Don't hold me liable for any damages resulting from using my code
(e.g. if the code turns you to drinking heavily, don't charge the drinks
to my tab).
- If you do decide to credit people and you use my code, a thank you in the
same section as other third-party contributors would be great, but not
required!
- Finally, don't use my name to promote the sale of your product without
asking. It's great if you sell a product with my code in it, and I hope
you are wildly successful! I just don't want my name associated with a
company that acts like a jerk. So ask first.
Finally, the code may contain third party libaries. I've done my best to adhere
to their licensing rules and make them explicit. But please do your own due
diligence and double check before assuming everything is as permissive as
my own code's license!
For more information on the MIT license check out the Wikipedia page. The
license below is the basic MIT plus the MIT X11 and MIT XFree86 Project clauses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License.