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- All programs and code included in this distribution, which are not
- covered by other conditions distributed with the code, are
-
- Copyright (C) Paul Moore, 1992.
-
- This specifically includes changes made in order to port software (while
- not affecting the conditions applied by the author to the underlying
- software).
-
- This file should be included with any distribution of this software.
- Failure to do so constitutes a violation of the conditions of use.
-
- If you modify this software in any way (enhancements, bug fixes,
- tailoring for your environment, porting to another machine or OS), the
- modified version is STILL covered by all of the conditions described
- here. In addition, you must include documentation clearly stating what
- changes you have made.
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
-
- I am not a lawyer, and hence I am not sure how much enforcability the
- following conditions have under the various relevant laws. However, these
- are my INTENTIONS for this code, and I expect all users to follow the
- conditions, regardless of legal technicalities!
-
- Support
- -------
-
- This code is supplied as it stands. I make NO claims for usability or
- fitness for a specific purpose. The code was developed for my own
- purposes, to run on my machine, and satisfies these purposes. I do not
- guarantee that the program will work, or even compile, on your machine. I
- do not even guarantee that the documentation included is an accurate
- description of what the code does! If the program wipes your hard disk,
- and then proceeds to reconfigure your machine to make it unusable, you
- must assume that is what I intended it to do, and I am happy that it
- performs its function well!
-
- I do not offer any support with this package. If you contact me with
- queries, I may answer with a simple "Sorry, I can't help", or I may not
- answer at all. If you contact me to report a bug, and provide a fix, you
- will have my thanks, but not much else (I won't undertake to distribute
- the fix...)
-
- As a brief guide, I will almost certainly NOT respond to questions on how
- to use the program. I may help with installation questions - it depends
- on how much work for me is involved. I will not send copies of supporting
- programs which were omitted from the distribution - most such programs
- are publicly available somewhere (try the Newcastle server) and sending
- out individual copies of programs costs me money. Whether I respond to
- bug reports depends on the amount of work involved, the seriousness of
- the bug, and whether it affects me or not!
-
- My apologies if the above seems unhelpful, but I simply do not have the
- time or resources to offer support. (Of course, if you wanted to offer me
- huge amounts of money...)
-
- Conditions Of Use
- -----------------
-
- This code is distributed free of charge. You are not obliged to provide
- any form of distribution service. However, if you do so, you must abide
- by the following conditions.
-
- You may not charge any fee for distribution, other than media and postage
- cost. You may not include any charge to cover the costs of setting up,
- maintaining, or advertising, a PD library. (This latter clause may cause
- problems for small PD libraries wishing to distribute my programs. If so,
- I'm sorry, but these are my conditions. Contact me if you want to
- negotiate a special exception. They are like this because of a recent
- case where Beebug were charging around UKP 6.00 for PD disks. This was
- considered unreasonable by a number of people, including myself, and I do
- not want to be associated with high-profile PD libraries charging higher
- fees than small operations). You may not profit from the distribution of
- this code.
-
- Note that the above prohibition on making a profit from this code
- includes the use of the code as any form of incentive for buying your
- products. I am specifically including in the above prohibition, the
- practice of including free "PD software" disks along with new hardware or
- software. These programs may NOT be included in any such package. (Again,
- this condition was prompted by a recent case involving Beebug. Contact me
- if you feel you have a valid case for an exception).
-
- You may use this code for your own purposes in any way you like. This
- covers the inclusion of the whole or any part of the code into your own
- programs. Such programs may be for your own use, freely distributable or
- commercial.
-
- If you use any of this code in your own programs, you must credit me in
- your documentation - referring to the specific code which I wrote.
-
- I would prefer it if you distribute the source of any of my code which
- you use (in the case of functions linked in from libraries, source for
- just the functions used rather than for the whole library would be OK).
- However, I am not REQUIRING this, as I feel that such a condition would
- tend to encourage people to write their own versions "just in case" they
- get into legal problems with my conditions. (The GNU project has had
- similar problems, with its general public license).
-
- Contacting Me
- -------------
-
- I can be contacted on E-Mail at either of the following addresses:
-
- pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk
- gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk
-
- Alternatively, if you do not have access to E-Mail, you can contact me by
- post, at
-
- 10, Mulberry Rise,
- Firdale Park,
- Northwich,
- Cheshire,
- CW8 4UQ
- England.
-
- Please only use this as a last resort - I am much less likely to reply to
- postal messages than to E-Mail. Also, I will be moving house in the near
- future, so this address may be out of date by now! Certainly, don't use
- it after December 1993.
-
- Please do not contact me by phone.
-
- Note that I do NOT provide a distribution service for my software.
- Requests for copies of my programs will, in general, be completely
- ignored. If you send disks and return postage, I will send the disks back
- (but I will not supply the software - I do not keep my sources in a
- "distributable" form, so I would have to do quite a bit of work to create
- a set of sources/executables which you could use). If you send disks but
- no return postage, I WILL KEEP THE DISKS.
-
- Earlier Versions of This Software
- ---------------------------------
-
- I would like these conditions to be applied to all versions of my
- programs currently in circulation. This particularly applies to the "no
- support" clauses - in earlier distributions I offered more support, which
- is something I no longer feel able to do.
-
- Therefore, I would appreciate it if people with older versions of my
- software would copy this file into those versions. These conditions will
- then apply to those versions as well.
-
- I realise that this section is totally unenforceable in any legal sense.
- If this could affect the legal status of the rest of this document, this
- section should be considered as a comment, having no legal status.
-
- As an alternative way of looking at it, any version of my programs NOT
- containing these conditions is now deemed to be obsolete. No support will
- be given for such obsolete versions.
-