Cisco CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0 许可信息

Open Source and Third-Party Licenses Used In CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0

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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:

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.