AMC License Agreement Note: This license agreement was shamefully stolen (with the permission of the authors) from the license agreement of the Netwide Assembler (NASM). Kudos to: Simon Tatham . It has been modified slightly but still has the original flavor. You can obtain the original AMC archive from: ftp://amc.din.net/pub/amc The purpose of this license --------------------------- I wrote this program for many reasons, one main reason was to do some good. One thing that I feel is very important is helping the environment. Thus, if you use this program and do make money off of it, I would prefer that you donate money to an environmental charity. The world is too fragile of a place for us to just let 'the other guy' deal with such problems. We all live here, let's keep it clean! Now that I have done my rant... Can I have the gist without reading the legalese? ------------------------------------------------- Basically, amc is free. You can't charge for it. You can copy it as much as you like. You can incorporate it, or bits of it, into other free programs if you want. (But we want to know about it if you do, and we want to be mentioned in the credits.) We may well allow you to incorporate it into commercial software too, but we'll probably demand that some money be donated to an environmental cause for it, and we'll certainly demand to be given credit. And in extreme cases (although I can't immediately think of a reason we might actually want to do this) we may refuse to let you do it at all. AMC LICENCE AGREEMENT ====================== By "the Software" this licence refers to the complete contents of the AMC archive, excluding this licence document itself, and excluding the contents of the `test' directory. I. The Software is freely redistributable; anyone may copy the Software, or parts of the Software, and give away as many copies as they like to anyone, as long as this licence document is kept with the Software. Charging a fee for the Software is prohibited, although a fee may be charged for the act of transferring a copy, and you can offer warranty protection and charge a fee for that. II. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other freely redistributable software (by which we mean software that may be obtained free of charge) without requiring permission from the authors, as long as due credit is given to the authors of the Software in the resulting work, as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, and as long as those parts of the Software that are used remain under this licence. III. Modified forms of the Software may be created and distributed as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, as long as the resulting work remains under this licence, as long as the modified form of the Software is distributed with documentation which still gives credit to the original authors of the Software, and as long as the modified form of the Software is distributed with a clear statement that it is not the original form of the Software in the form that it was distributed by the authors. IV. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other software which is not freely redistributable (i.e. software for which a fee is charged), as long as permission is granted from the authors of the Software. The authors reserve the right to grant this permission only for a fee, which may at our option take the form of royalty payments or demand a donation to an environmental cause. The authors also reserve the right to refuse to grant permission if they deem it necessary. V. The Software may be incorporated, in its original archive form, into software collections or archives which are not freely redistributable, as long as it is clearly stated that the Software itself remains freely redistributable and remains under this licence and no other. Such collections are deemed not to fall under article IV of this licence. VI. Output source code generated by the Software as output does not fall under this licence at all, and may be placed under any licence the author wishes. The authors explicitly lay no claim to, and assert no rights over, any programs written by other people and processed and/or compiled by the Software. VII. You may not copy, modify or distribute the Software except under the terms given in this licence document. You may not sublicense the Software or in any way place it under any other licence than this one. Since you have not signed this licence, you are not of course required to accept it; however, no other licence applies to the Software, and nothing else grants you any permission to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Software in any way. These actions are therefore prohibited if you do not accept this licence. VIII. There is no warranty for the Software, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The authors provide the Software "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 the Software is with you. Should the Software prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair, legal defense, punishment, damages or correction. IX. In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, will any of the authors be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages, arising out of the use or the inability to use the Software, including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or a failure of the Software to operate with any other programs, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages. END OF LICENCE AGREEMENT