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WCL GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1992 Wade L. Hennessey
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license, but changing it is not allowed. You can also use this wording
to make the terms for other programs.
The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is
intended to give everyone the right to share WCL. To make sure
that you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make
restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you
to surrender the rights. Hence this license agreement.
Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
away copies of WCL, that you receive source code or else can get
it if you want it, that you can change WCL or use pieces of it
in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute
copies of WCL, you must give the recipients all the rights that
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code. And you must tell them their rights.
Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
finds out that there is no warranty for WCL. If WCL is modified by
someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced
by others will not reflect on our reputation.
Therefore, Wade L. Hennessey makes the following terms which say
what you must do to be allowed to distribute or change WCL.
COPYING POLICIES
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of WCL source code as
you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright and license
notice "Copyright (C) 1992 Wade L. Hennessey. All rights reserved."
(or with whatever year is appropriate); keep intact the notices on all
files that refer to this License Agreement and to the absence of any
warranty; and give any other recipients of the WCL program a copy of
this License Agreement along with the program. You may charge a
distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a copy.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of WCL or any portion of
it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of
Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
that you changed the files and the date of any change; and
b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of WCL
or any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third
parties on terms identical to those contained in this License
Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive
warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your option).
c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
protection in exchange for a fee.
Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program (or its
derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring
the other program under the scope of these terms.
3. You may copy and distribute WCL (or a portion or derivative
of it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the
terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
following:
a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal
shipping charge) a complete machine-readable copy of the
corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form alone.)
For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code for
all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not include
source code for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the
operating system on which the executable file runs.
4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer WCL
except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt
otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer WCL is
void and your rights to use the program under this License agreement
shall be automatically terminated. However, parties who have received
computer software programs from you with this License Agreement will not
have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full
compliance.
5. If you wish to incorporate parts of WCL into other free programs
whose distribution conditions are different, write to
wade@sunrise.stanford.edu. We have not yet worked out a simple rule
that can be stated here, but we will often permit this. We will be
guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all
derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and
reuse of software.
Your comments and suggestions about our licensing policies and our
software are welcome! Please contact wade@sunrise.stanford.edu.
NO WARRANTY
BECAUSE WCL IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW. EXCEPT
WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, WADE L. HENNESSEY, AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE WCL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF WCL IS WITH YOU.
SHOULD WCL PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL WADE L. HENNESSEY
AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE
WCL AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING
ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS) WCL, EVEN IF YOU
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM
BY ANY OTHER PARTY.