The JRTwine Software Free Source Code License (JRTS-FSCL)

Version 3.0 [08/17/07], Copyright 2002-2007, JRTwine Software, LLC (http://www.jrtwine.com).
Version 2.0 can be found Here

This document covers the JRTwine Software Free Source Code License, hereafter referred to as the JRTS-FSCL.

You must accept the terms of the License in order to use any material that is covered by this License.

Purpose:
This license was designed to allow relatively easy use of certain Intellectual Property (IP) subject to a few restrictions, without the potential hassles or viral nature of other licenses such as the GPL.  For example, if you use and/or derive from this material, you are not required to make your changes publically available.  It also provides developers/authors a means of protecting their IP from being misused, and a way of receiving recognition for their hard work.

This License applies to any material which contains a notice placed by the author(s) stating that the material may be used and/or distributed under the terms of the JRTS-FSCL.  Authors can optionally limit material to a particular version of the license if they wish.

This License grants you, the Recipient, a royalty-free license to use and redistribute the material covered by this License subject to the following conditions:

  1. The original material remains under the copyright of the original author(s).  The material is NOT placed into the Public Domain.  Any notices, documentation or binary signature methods (e.g. #pragma(exestr) directives or similiar .NET attributes in the code) that exist in the material must not be removed.  Note that the mere presence any such methods by themselves do not satisfy the requirement of acknowledgement stated in #6 below.
  2. Any material that directly derives from the original material must explicitly state that it does so in its comments or other internal documentation.  Any notices, documentation or binary signature methods existing in the original material must remain intact and be carried over to any derived material as well.
  3. Derived material must identify itself as such.  This prevents the original author(s) from being held responsible for other people's code.
  4. You may not directly sell or otherwise provide for-profit the material unless you provide substantial additional value to and along with it.  The definition of substantial is up to the original author(s).  As a simple example, you may not take an existing class library in source code form that is covered by the JRTS-FSCL, compile it into a static or dynamic library and sell it as a stand-alone product.
  5. Any copyright, trademark or IP notices in the material must remain in the material.
  6. Products using the material must have a appropriate user-viewable notice of acknowledgement including the author's name and copyright information.  Suitable locations for this notice are the product's documentation, Splash Screen, About Box and any other location that displays copyright information.  (For example, "portions of this product are copyright © [year(s)] by [author(s)]" or "portions of this product were designed/developed by [author(s)]".)  It is recommended that authors be contacted as to if and how they wish to be acknowledged in your product.
  7. The material is provided with **NO WARRANTY** of any kind.  That is, the material is provided as-is, and you accept the entire risk as to the performance, quality, and fitness-for-purpose of the material.  In no event shall the original or subsequent author(s) be liable to you, or any third parties that receive the material directly or indirectly through you, for damages of *any* kind.  This includes all forms of losses (tangible or not) including but not limited to: monetary, time, and user satisfaction.
  8. Unless otherwise indicated by the original author(s), the material may NOT be used in or for the development of the following:
    • spam (UCE) or spam-related applications
    • spyware applications
    • ad-ware applications
    • applications used for any purposes that are illegal in the author(s) country or yours
  9. You are not required to accept this License.  However, nothing else grants you permission and/or rights to use the material.  These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.  Therefore, by using any portion of the the material you indicate your complete acceptance of and consent to this entire License, and all its terms and conditions.
  10. JRTwine Software, LLC reserves the right to revise this license from time-to-time as required. 
  11. Authors may, and are welcome to, provide material under a multi-licensing such that the material can be used by a third party under a different set of restrictions.

Notes:

As the JRTS-FSCL evolves and is updated, previous versions of the license will remain available for reference purposes or for older material that was released specifically under certain versions of the license.

Unless otherwise limited to a specific version of the license, material placed under the JRTS-FSCL automatically applies to the most recent version of the license. 

If you have any questions regarding the use of any material covered by this license, or have suggestions or comments regarding it, please contact the original author(s) of the material.


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