Ticket #291: LICENSE

File LICENSE, 6.1 KB (added by sjamaan, 14 years ago)
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1== Main license
2
3Chicken falls under the following main license:
4
5  Copyright (c) 2007-2010, The Chicken team
6  Copyright (c) 2000-2007, Felix L. Winkelmann
7  Copyright (c) 1993-2001, Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees
8  Copyright (c) 2005-2010, Alex Shinn
9  Copyright (c) 1996, 1998-2000, Olin Shivers
10  All rights reserved.
11 
12  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
13  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
14  are met:
15  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
16     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
17  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
18     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
19     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
20  3. The name of the authors may not be used to endorse or promote products
21     derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
22 
23  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
24  IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
25  OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
26  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
27  INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
28  NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
29  DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
30  THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
31  (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
32  THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
33 
34
35== Additional licenses in main code
36
37srfi-1.scm:
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39  Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 by Olin Shivers. You may do as you please with
40  this code as long as you do not remove this copyright notice or
41  hold me liable for its use. Please send bug reports to shivers@ai.mit.edu.
42      -Olin
43
44srfi-13.scm, srfi-14.scm:
45
46  Copyright (c) 1988-1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
47  Copyright (c) 1988-1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
48  This material was developed by the Scheme project at the Massachusetts
49  Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and
50  Computer Science.  Permission to copy and modify this software, to
51  redistribute either the original software or a modified version, and
52  to use this software for any purpose is granted, subject to the
53  following restrictions and understandings.
54 
55  1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
56  in full.
57 
58  2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to
59  return to the MIT Scheme project any improvements or extensions that
60  they make, so that these may be included in future releases; and (b)
61  to inform MIT of noteworthy uses of this software.
62 
63  3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this
64  software shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual
65  standards of acknowledging credit in academic research.
66 
67  4. MIT has made no warrantee or representation that the operation of
68  this software will be error-free, and MIT is under no obligation to
69  provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
70 
71  5. In conjunction with products arising from the use of this material,
72  there shall be no use of the name of the Massachusetts Institute of
73  Technology nor of any adaptation thereof in any advertising,
74  promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent from
75  MIT in each case.
76
77
78=== Public domain / unencumbered
79
80Since we would still like to acknowledge all the useful contributions
81from people who gave us public domain code, here's a list for
82completeness sake:
83
84data-structures.scm:
85
86  Copyright (C) 1995 Mikael Djurfeldt
87  Taken from SLIB (slightly adapted)
88
89  SLIB's sort.scm has this statement:
90
91  Richard A. O'Keefe (based on Prolog code by D.H.D.Warren)
92  This code is in the public domain.
93
94extras.scm:
95
96  Copyright (c) 1991, Marc Feeley
97  Author: Marc Feeley (feeley@iro.umontreal.ca)
98  Distribution restrictions: none
99
100== Tests
101
102Tests are ''not'' part of a typical binary Chicken distribution, so
103these licenses are only relevant in atypical situations:
104
105tests/slatex.scm
106tests/slatex.sty
107tests/test.tex:
108  Copyright (c) 1990-2002, Dorai Sitaram.
109  All rights reserved.
110
111  Permission to distribute and use this work for any
112  purpose is hereby granted provided this copyright
113  notice is included in the copy.  This work is provided
114  as is, with no warranty of any kind.
115
116tests/dwindtst.scm:
117
118  Copyright (C) 1992 Aubrey Jaffer
119 
120  Permission to copy this software, to modify it, to redistribute it,
121  to distribute modified versions, and to use it for any purpose is
122  granted, subject to the following restrictions and understandings.
123 
124  1.  Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
125  in full.
126 
127  2.  I have made no warranty or representation that the operation of
128  this software will be error-free, and I am under no obligation to
129  provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
130 
131  3.  In conjunction with products arising from the use of this
132  material, there shall be no use of my name in any advertising,
133  promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent in
134  each case.
135
136
137tests/r4rstest.scm:
138
139  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
140 
141  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
142  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
143  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
144  later version.
145 
146  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
147  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
148  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
149  GNU General Public License for more details.
150 
151  To receive a copy of the GNU General Public License, write to the
152  Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
153  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA; or view
154  http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/GPL.html
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