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Licensing and Copyrights

The OSSP project uses four distinguished and OSI-approved Open Source software distribution licenses:
  • GNU General Public License (2.0)
    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

    This is the strongest license, meaning it applies the most restrictions. It is used in OSSP mainly for stand-alone tools which are not included (by copying) into other components. The intention is to make sure the covered software remains fully free software and allow others to use it mostly everywhere only under certain strong restrictions.

  • GNU Lesser General Public License (2.1)
    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

    This is the compromise license, meaning it applies a reasonable set of restrictions but without making too much trouble for the user. It is used in OSSP mainly for libraries which should be strongly protected but which are not included (by copying) into other libraries (as sub-components). The intention is to make sure the covered software remains mostly fully free software and allow others to use it mostly everywhere without too strong restrictions.

  • MIT-Style License
    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

    This is the weakest license, meaning it applies the least restrictions. It is used in OSSP mainly for libraries which are potentially included (by copying) into other libraries (as sub-components). The intention is to make sure the covered software can be used really everywhere and for every reason without any real restrictions.

All OSSP software components are covered by one of the four licenses above. They clearly indicate this with an obvious license declarations at the top of each source file. The used declarations follow:

GNU General Public License


  OSSP foo -- Foo Library
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall 
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 The OSSP Project 

  This file is part of OSSP foo, a foo library which
  can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/foo/.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  2.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
  USA, or contact The OSSP Project .

GNU Lesser General Public License


  OSSP foo -- Foo Library
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall 
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 The OSSP Project 

  This file is part of OSSP foo, a foo library which
  can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/foo/.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
  USA, or contact The OSSP Project .

MIT License


  OSSP foo -- Foo Library
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall 
  Copyright (c) 2002-2008 The OSSP Project 

  This file is part of OSSP foo, a foo library which
  can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/foo/.

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for
  any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that
  the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
  copies.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
  WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THEIR
  CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
  SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
  LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
  USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
  ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
  OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
  OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
  SUCH DAMAGE.

BSD License


  OSSP foo -- Foo Library
  Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall 

  This file is part of OSSP foo, a foo library which
  can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/foo/.
 
  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  are met:
 
  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
     the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
     distribution.
 
  3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
     software must display the following acknowledgment:
     "This product includes software developed by
      Ralf S. Engelschall ."
 
  4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
     acknowledgment:
     "This product includes software developed by
      Ralf S. Engelschall ."
 
  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY RALF S. ENGELSCHALL ``AS IS'' AND ANY
  EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL RALF S. ENGELSCHALL OR
  ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
  SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
  NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
  LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
  HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
  STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
  ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
  OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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