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RBBSMail Licensing Terms.
(C) by Jan R. Terpstra
Februari 21, 1992
Bamestra RBBS
P.O.Box 66
1462 ZH Beemster
The Netherlands
RBBSNet 8:998/1.0
FIDONET 2:512/10.0
phone1 ++31 2998 3602 (v24)
phone2 ++31 2998 3603 (HST)
Document Number RM_LIC001
RBBSMail Licensing Terms
RBBSMail Licensing Terms
1. Legal Stuff
1.1 Copyrights & License
RBBSMail is (C) Copyright 1988...1991 by Jan R. Terpstra.
Non-Commercial distribution and/or use is permitted under the following
terms::
1 - You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of RBBSMail 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 "(C) Copyright 1987, 1992 by Jan R. Terpstra";
■ you keep intact the notices on all files that refer to this License
Agreement and to the absence of any warranty;
■ you provide UNMODIFIED copies of the documentation as provided with
the program;
■ you give any other recipients of the RBBSMail program a copy of this
License Agreement along with the program.
2 - You may not charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy. Under no circumstances is RBBSMail 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.
3 - You may modify your copy or copies of RBBSMail or any portion of it,
and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph 1
above, provided that you:
■ send a complete copy of the modified source and executables to Jan R.
Terpstra at the address on the title page of this document, for the
purpose of evaluation for inclusion in future releases of RBBSMail.
Should your source code be included in RBBSMail, Jan R. Terpstra
retains all rights for redistribution of the code as part of RBBSMail
and all derivative works, with appropriate credit given to the author
of the modification,
■ cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you
changed the files and the date of any change,
■ cause the executable code of such modified version to clearly identify
itself as such in the course of its normal operation,
■ 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;
■ cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is a derivative of RBBSMail 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),
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■ You may not charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy. You may not offer warranty protection in
exchange for a fee.
4 - 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.
5 - You may copy and distribute RBBSMail 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, 2 and 3 above provided
that you also do one of the following:
accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code,
which must be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above,
OR
accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give
any third party free a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding
source code, to be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3
above,
OR
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. As exception, it need not include source code
for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the compiler used
to generate the object code or libraries that are part of the operating
system on which the executable file runs.
6 - You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer RBBSMail and its
associated documentation except as expressly provided under this License
Agreement. Any attempt otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or
transfer RBBSMail 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, and notify Jan R. Terpstra of their intention
to comply with this Agreement.
7 - If you wish to incorporate parts of RBBSMail into other free programs
whose distribution conditions are different, please contact Jan R.
Terpstra at the address listed below. There's not yet a simple rule that
can be stated here, but it will usually be permitted this. Such decision
is guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all
derivatives of this free software (as it pertains to Non-Commercial use as
provided by this Agreement) and of promoting the sharing and reuse of
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software.
8 - For the purposes of this document, "COMMERCIAL USE" is defined as
operation of the software with the intent of generating financial revenue,
where the revenue excesses the true costs of running the organisation
(i.e. profit). The term "COMMERCIAL USE" includes use by religious
organisations, government agencies and organisation raising funds for
third parties.
NON-PROFIT non-religious organization or individuals may operate this
software under the terms of this Non-Commercial Agreement.
9 - You may terminate this license at any time by simply destroying all
copies of the RBBSMail executables, sourcecode and documentation you have
in your posession.
1.2 NO WARRANTY
BECAUSE RBBSMail IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, I PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, JAN R. TERPSTRA
AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE RBBSMail "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 RBBSMail,
AND THE ACCURACY OF ITS ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION, IS WITH YOU. SHOULD
RBBSMail OR ITS ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT WILL JAN R. TERPSTRA BE RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR THE
BEHAVIOR OF MODIFIED VERSIONS OF RBBSMail. IN NO EVENT WILL Jan R.
Terpstra AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE RBBSMail
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) RBBSMail, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
You can contact the author at address listed on the titelpage of this
document. Feel free to contact me at any time to share your comments
about my software and/or licensing policies. I don't always listen,
though.
1.3 NO MONEY
Non-Commercial users may us this software free of charge. If you
absolutely insist on spending money for RBBSMail, DO NOT put a check in
the mail to me. In stead, take your wife or girlfriend (not both!) out to
dinner, to make up for the many, many hours you left her alone while you
were playing around with your BBS.......
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Therefore, it is understood that RBBSMail is distributed as DINNERWARE.
There's one absolute requirement for using this code: Send the author of
RBBSMail a nice postcard of a local scenery or from your next vacation.
No windmills please :-)
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