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- LICENCE
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- Copyright 1991 by Scott J. Dudley. All rights reserved.
- COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION AND/OR USE PROHIBITED WITHOUT WRITTEN
- CONSENT FROM THE AUTHOR.
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- Noncommercial distribution and/or use is permitted under the
- following terms:
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- 1) You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Maximus
- source, documentation, and executable code as you receive
- it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
- appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice
- "Copyright 1991 by Scott J. Dudley"; keep intact the notices
- on all files that refer to this Licence Agreement and to the
- absence of any warranty; PROVIDE UNMODIFIED COPIES OF THE
- DOCUMENTATION AS PROVIDED WITH THE PROGRAM; and give any
- other recipients of the Maximus program a copy of this
- Licence Agreement along with the program. You may charge a
- distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a
- copy, but no more than is necessary to recover your actual
- costs incurred in the transfer. Under no circumstances is
- Maximus to be distributed in such a way as to be construed
- as "value added" in a sales transaction, such as, but not
- limited to, software bundled with a modem or CD-ROM software
- collections, without the prior written consent of the
- author.
-
- 2) You may modify your copy or copies of Maximus 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:
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- a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
- stating that you changed the files and the date of any
- change;
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- b) cause the executable code of such modified version to
- clearly identify itself as such in the course of its normal
- operation;
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- c) if the modified version is not a "port", but operates in
- the same hardware and/or software environment as the
- original distribution, make the original version equally
- available, clearly identifying same as the original,
- unmodified version;
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- d) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or
- publish, that in whole or in part contains or is a
- derivative of Maximus or any part thereof, to be licensed at
- no charge to all third parties on terms identical to those
- contained in this Licence Agreement (except that you may
- choose to grant more extensive warranty protection to some
- or all third parties, at your option); and:
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- e) send the complete source code modifications to Scott
- Dudley at the addresses listed below, for the purpose of
- evaluation for inclusion in future releases of Maximus.
- Should your source code be included in Maximus, Scott Dudley
- retains all rights for redistribution of the code as part of
- Maximus and all derivative works, with appropriate credit
- given to the author of the modification;
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- f) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
- transferring a copy, but no more than is necessary to
- recover your actual costs incurred in the transfer, and you
- may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for
- a fee;
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- g) when distributing modified versions of Maximus, you must
- not change the name of the program or the official version
- number, except to append an identifier which indicates that
- modifications have been made. For ports to other operating
- systems, the following convention must be followed:
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- Maximus v<v>.<os>.R<r>
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- ...where <v> is the official Maximus version number, <os> is
- the name of the operating system which the port runs under,
- and <r> (optional) is the OS-specific revision number. For
- example, the second OS/2 revision of Maximus 1.02 must have
- a version string in this format: `Maximus v1.02.OS/2.R2'
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- Similarly, modifications to Maximus which are designed to
- run under MS-DOS must also follow a naming convention. The
- version string must read:
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- Maximus v<v>.<i>.<r>
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- where <v> is the official Maximus version number, <i> is
- three initials (indicating your first, middle and last
- names), and <r> (optional) is the revision number of your
- modifications.
-
- For example, a version of Maximus 2.00 modified by Joe T.
- SysOp must have a version string in this format: `Maximus
- v2.00.jts.1'
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- 3) Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this
- program and documentation (or derivative works) on a volume
- of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other
- program under the scope of these terms.
-
- 4) You may copy and distribute Maximus and its associated
- documentation (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:
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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.)
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- 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.
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- 5) You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer Maximus
- and its associated documentation except as expressly
- provided under this Licence Agreement. Any attempt
- otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer
- Maximus is void and your rights to use the program under
- this Licence agreement shall be automatically terminated.
-
- However, parties who have received computer software
- programs from you with this Licence Agreement will not have
- their licences terminated so long as such parties remain in
- full compliance, and notify Scott Dudley of their intention
- to comply with this Agreement.
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- 6) You may not incorporate parts of Maximus into a program
- which is NOT completely free for ALL users. If you wish to
- use Maximus in such a way, you must obtain written
- permission from Scott Dudley before using any of the Maximus
- code.
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- 7) You may not incorporate parts of Maximus into a FUNCTIONALLY
- SIMILAR program, including other bulletin board packages or
- tossers/scanners. If you are writing another BBS or remote
- host package, you must contact Scott Dudley before using any
- of the Maximus code.
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- 8) The privileges granted above apply only to noncommercial
- users of the Maximus software. You are a NONCOMMERCIAL user
- only if you are running Maximus a private individual with no
- "sponsors", "backers", and only if your BBS is not making
- (or helping to make) a profit. You are a COMMERCIAL user if
- you make a profit from running your BBS. You are also a
- COMMERCIAL user if your BBS is being run by (or for) any
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- corporation, government, company, foundation, church,
- school, or any other organization You are also a COMMERCIAL
- user if your system is used to advertise such a commercial
- organization for the purposes of making a profit.
-
- This licence only governs NONCOMMERCIAL users. If you are a
- COMMERCIAL user, you are not licensed to use or distribute
- this software without the prior written consent of Scott
- Dudley. If you wish to run Maximus as a commercial user,
- please see the section below on site licences.
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- 9) This licence may be revoked by Scott Dudley without prior
- notice.
-
- NO WARRANTY
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- BECAUSE MAXIMUS-CBCS IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE
- ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING,
- SCOTT DUDLEY AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE MAXIMUS-CBCS "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 MAXIMUS-CBCS,
- AND THE ACCURACY OF ITS ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION, IS WITH YOU.
- SHOULD MAXIMUS-CBCS OR ITS ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION PROVE
- DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR
- OR CORRECTION.
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- IN NO EVENT WILL SCOTT DUDLEY BE RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR THE
- BEHAVIOUR OF MODIFIED VERSIONS OF MAXIMUS-CBCS. IN NO EVENT WILL
- SCOTT DUDLEY AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND
- REDISTRIBUTE MAXIMUS-CBCS 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) MAXIMUS-CBCS, EVEN IF SCOTT DUDLEY HAS BEEN
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY
- ANY OTHER PARTY.
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- You can contact the author at any of the addresses listed below:
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- FidoNet: 1:249/106
- IMEXnet: 89:487/106
- Internet: sjd@f106.n249.z1.fidonet.org
- CServe: >INTERNET:sjd@f106.n249.z1.fidonet.org
- BBS: (613) 389-8315, 14.4K/HST
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- Surface mail:
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- 777 Downing St.
- Kingston, Ont.
- Canada K7M 5N3
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- The author can also be reached through the EchoMail conferences
- called MUFFIN (Max support) and TUB (Squish support).
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- Sending correspondence via electronic mail is strongly preferred.
- However, if you expect to receive a reply via surface mail,
- please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Maximus users
- outside of Canada should include an international postal reply
- coupon instead of a stamp.
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- DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE AUTHOR BY TELEPHONE! VOICE SUPPORT
- WILL NOT BE PROVIDED FOR NONCOMMERCIAL USERS!
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- Please feel free to contact the author at any time to share your
- comments about this software and/or licensing policies.
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- Our thanks to Richard Stallman at the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc. and BBS Co. for most of the wording of this licence.