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14. http://www.opensource.org/
15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html
16. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html
17. mailto:d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu
18. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
19. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/ACE.html
15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html
16. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html
17. mailto:d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu
18. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
19. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/ACE.html
1.2 ACME 1.0
1.2.1 Available under license :
ACME Labs Freeware License
All the free software available on the ACME Labs web site has a copyright notice like this one:
Copyright ? 2000 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved.
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.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ''AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS 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 AUTHOR OR 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.
So what does this legalese mean? This is a modified version of the BSD license. You may be more
familiar with the Gnu Public License, since it gets a lot of press. Well, forget about that. The BSD
license is very different. While the Gnu license puts all sorts of restrictions on what you can do with
the software, BSD-style licenses say "Hey, do what you like, we don't care. Just let people know we
wrote it, and don't sue us." That's really all there is to it. The first paragraph with the numbered
items says you can do what you like with the code, as long as you keep our name on it. The original
BSD license had a couple more provisions there, we got rid of those. The second paragraph, all in
capital letters, is a standard legal boilerplate notification that tries to make it difficult for anyone to
successfully sue us over the software.
By the way, FreshMeat has a nice list of different types of freeware licenses. There are quite a few
besides BSD and GPL. There's also the OpenSource.org list of open source licenses, which is not
quite the same as the freeware licenses.
http://www.acme.com/license.html (1 of 2) [6/23/2008 2:55:36 PM]
ACME Labs Freeware License
Here are some questions people ask about the license:
All the free software available on the ACME Labs web site has a copyright notice like this one:
Copyright ? 2000 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved.
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.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ''AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS 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 AUTHOR OR 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.
So what does this legalese mean? This is a modified version of the BSD license. You may be more
familiar with the Gnu Public License, since it gets a lot of press. Well, forget about that. The BSD
license is very different. While the Gnu license puts all sorts of restrictions on what you can do with
the software, BSD-style licenses say "Hey, do what you like, we don't care. Just let people know we
wrote it, and don't sue us." That's really all there is to it. The first paragraph with the numbered
items says you can do what you like with the code, as long as you keep our name on it. The original
BSD license had a couple more provisions there, we got rid of those. The second paragraph, all in
capital letters, is a standard legal boilerplate notification that tries to make it difficult for anyone to
successfully sue us over the software.
By the way, FreshMeat has a nice list of different types of freeware licenses. There are quite a few
besides BSD and GPL. There's also the OpenSource.org list of open source licenses, which is not
quite the same as the freeware licenses.
http://www.acme.com/license.html (1 of 2) [6/23/2008 2:55:36 PM]
ACME Labs Freeware License
Here are some questions people ask about the license: