It Vends is a small, silly project to distribute items at random to the internet public. It also provides a basic API(via vend.php) to request items for usage by automated IRC bots or similar. A full RESTful API is in the testing phase, with support planned for social network integration.
It Vends is Copyright 2011 by the persons listed in the Authors section of this README document. Detailed authorship can be found by examing the source code repository via the "git-blame" command.
The "It Vends" name is Copyright 2010 Eugene E. Kashpureff, and is pending trademark registration in The United States of America. Usage of this term (including the phrase "It Vends!") is permitted within reason and when used in a manner consistent with the image of the brand. See the License section below for further information.
Included libraries(jQuery, Sizzle, jQuery UI, jQuery doTimeout) are copyright by their respective authors, as noted in their source files.
Maintainer:
Primary Authors:
Contributors:
- sannse
- Kyte
- ShadowShadok
- James Taylor
Changelog for this release(v1.4.0):
- Add new "title" format.
- Add new vendables
- Restructure README & CHANGELOG into Markdown
See the CHANGELOG file for historical entries, or the git source repository for per-commit change information.
It Vends is offered as free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. If you wish to obtain It Vends under another license(including a proprietary commercial license) for inclusion into other software or use in a situation where the GNU GPL is not acceptable, you may contact the Maintainer for further information.
When obtained under the GNU General Public License, It Vends is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with It Vends. If not, you may obtain it at (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).
Usage of the 'It Vends' mark is restricted to the primary It Vends website, references to the original site, and references to the It Vends software. Further permission is given to use this mark in a manner consistent with the purpose and image of the brand, eg, within the phrase "It Vends!".
Any public distribution, fork or installation of It Vends which differs substantially from the original must be rebranded to prevent confusion with the canonical installation and the associated 'It Vends' mark. Reference to It Vends is permitted(eg, "Based upon It Vends"), within the same 'reasonable' conditions of the mark. Operation of a mirror site, containing only a faithful recreation of the original, is permitted, with the provision that it is to be marked as such.
Software or services which include It Vends code must maintain the Authors listing and License information contained in this document within their source code and any further redistributions. You may change the License to any license which is forward-compatible with the License under which you obtained It Vends, including any versions of the GNU General Public License higher than 3, or the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or higher.
Software or services which utilize It Vends in an unchanged or minimally altered format(eg, dynamic or static linking of the code), or via the service may do so without further attribution, but any such attribution is appreciated by the authors, if present. The suggested format is: "Powered by It Vends", with the 'It Vends' mark being a hyperlink to the named website, if the medium supports it.
The full source code for It Vends is available on Github.
It Vends includes the jQuery library, and it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, in accordance with the allowances of the MIT "Expat" License(included with It Vends as licenses/jQuery-MIT.txt). You may obtain a copy of the jQuery library for your own use here.
It Vends includes the Sizzle.js library, and it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, in accordance with the allowances of the MIT "Expat" License(included with It Vends as licenses/Sizzle-MIT.txt). You may obtain a copy of the Sizzle.js library for your own use here.
It Vends includes the jQuery User Interface library, and it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, in accordance with the allowances of the MIT "Expat" License(included with It Vends as licenses/jQuery-ui-MIT.txt). You may obtain a copy of the jQuery User Interface library for your own use here.
It Vends includes the jQuery doTimeout plugin, and it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, in accordance with the allowances of the MIT "Expat" License(included with It Vends as licenses/jquery-dotimeout-MIT.txt). You may obtain a copy of jQuery doTimeout for your own use here.
It Vends may be installed in the root directory of any VirtualHost. The current .htaccess assumes usage of the itvends.com domain and an Apache web server. Your setup will inevitably differ, and the configuration should be changed to fit.
As stated in Section 5, It Vends is chiefly distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3(or later, at your option) without warranty or guarantee. However, the primary authors of It Vends reserve the right to relicense It Vends under any suitable license, including(but not limited to) a proprietary commercial license. In order to maintain this right, any contributions to It Vends must be made under a Contributor License Agreement in order to be accepted.