Copyright ã1992 by Scott Hess.  All Rights Reserved.

License

Stuart is shareware.  This means that you may use Stuart free of charge within the bounds of this license for as long as you deem necessary to determine whether Stuart is useful to you.  The length of time required may vary from site to site, but I believe one or two months would be an appropriate evaluation period.  Certain circumstances may require longer evaluation periods, which is allowable - within reason.  For instance, six months should be more than sufficient for any imaginable evaluation purposes.

If after evaluation you find that Stuart is useful to you, and you wish to continue using Stuart, click the Info/Registration... menu item to fill out a registration form.  Print out the form and mail it to the address indicated on the form, with a check or money order for the amount specified on the form.  If you find that Stuart is not useful enough to warrant such payment, I ask that you cease using Stuart immediately.

This policy is quite liberal so far as most shareware policies go, and it is extremely liberal compared to almost any commercial policy.  In order that I may maintain this policy, I ask that you police yourself.  If you decide that Stuart is not worth paying for after your second day of use, I expect you to stop using it after your second day of use.  By the same token, if after the second day of use you decide that you will register Stuart, I ask that you start the registration process after the second day of use.  By registration process, I refer to any approval of funds required and other administrative overhead which occurs between when you make your decision and when I accept your registration.  You may use Stuart freely while the registration process is in progress.

Under this license, you are free to modify either Stuart or any accompanying files for local use only.  You are not free to modify Stuart or any accompanying files in any way which removes Scott Hess' Copyright notice from the program and accompanying files, or which causes the files to indicate that someone other than Scott Hess holds the Copyright on the program and accompanying files.  You may not make modified copies available for distribution outside of the site covered by your license.  I also ask that if you do make modifications to your local Stuart distribution, that the original distribution is available alongside the modified version for the convenience of your users.

In some instances, Stuart could be modified so as to become a very different program.  For instance, the name and icon can be changed relatively easily, the default preference values can be modified, and a new online manual could be used.  If your modified version of Stuart becomes different enough that you use both the modified version and Stuart itself as two separate programs, each usage will require a separate license of Stuart.  If ten people make regular use of both a modified Stuart and a normal Stuart, your license must account for twenty pieces rather than just ten.