Floodgap Free Software License

  The author of your software has chosen to distribute it under the
  Floodgap Free Software License. Although this software is without cost,
  it is not released under Copyleft or GPL, and there are differences
  which you should read. Your use of this software package constitutes
  your binding acceptance without restriction.

 This software is without cost

  The Floodgap Free Software License (FFSL) has one overriding mandate:
  that software using it, or derivative works based on software that uses
  it, must be free. By free we mean simply "free as in beer" -- you may
  put your work into open or closed source packages as you see fit,
  whether or not you choose to release your changes or updates publicly,
  but you must not ask any fee for it. (There are certain exceptions for
  for-profit use which we will discuss below.)

 Definitions and terms

  Author
         The declared copyright owner of this software package.

  Binary
         A pre-compiled or pre-interpreted bytecode or machine language
         representation of a software package not designed for further
         modification and tied to a particular platform or architecture.

  Derivative work
         Any distribution (q.v.) that contains any modification to or
         deviation from the official reference distribution (q.v.); or
         any software package significantly based on or integrally
         including the source code for its features, including but not
         limited to supersets; subsets of a significant proportion;
         in-place patched changes to source or binary files; linking in
         as a library; binary-only distributions if the original package
         included source (even if the source was not modified prior to
         compilation); or translations to another programming language,
         architecture or operating system environment. Derivative works
         of packages released under this license are also considered
         subject to this license.

         However, a software package that requires this package but does
         not include it or is not based upon it, even if it will not
         operate without it, is not considered a derivative work. For
         example, interpreted programs requiring an interpreter issued
         under this license, assuming they are not distributed with any
         portion of the interpreter, are not derivative works.

  Distribution
         A packaged release of this software, either the author's
         original work (the "reference distribution") or a derivative
         work based upon it.

  Reference distribution
         A packaged release of this software explicitly designated as the
         official release, written by or on behalf of the Author with his
         or her explicit designation as official. Only exact copies of
         the reference distribution may be called reference
         distributions; all other forms are derivative works.

  Source code
         The human-readable programming instructions of the package which
         might be easily read as text and subsequently edited, but
         requiring compilation or interpretation into binary before being
         directly useable.

 What you are permitted to do under this license

  Pursuant to the remainder of the terms below,
    * You may freely use, copy, and disseminate this software package for
      any non-commercial purpose as well as the commercial purposes
      permitted below.
    * You may freely modify this package, including source code if
      available. Your modifications need not be released, although you
      are encouraged to do so.
    * You may release your derivative works based upon this software in
      purely binary (non-source) form if you choose. You are not
      obligated to release any portion of your source code openly,
      although you are encouraged to do so.
    * If this package is a tool used for generation, compilation or
      maintenance of works, including but not limited to readable
      documents, software packages or images (for example, compilers,
      interpreters, translators, linkers, editors, assemblers or
      typesetters), you may freely use it for that purpose, commercial or
      otherwise, as the works made by this package are not considered
      subject to this license unless specified otherwise within and may
      be distributed under any desired license and/or offered for sale or
      rental. Any run-time library or run-time code section linked into
      the output by a compiler or similar code-generating tool governed
      by this license is considered to be an integral part of the output,
      and its presence does not subject the generated work to this
      license either. (This is, of course, assuming you are not using
      said tools to generate a derivative work based on this package in
      violation of the other license terms.)
      However, if you are linking or including a separately distributed
      library that is under this license, no matter what tool you are
      using to do the linking or inclusion, you are then considered to be
      making a derivative work based on that library and your work does
      fall under this license. To avoid this, do not include the library
      with your work (even though it needs the library to function) and
      instead offer the library separately without cost.
    * In addition to non-commercial use and the uses permitted above, you
      may use this software package in any for-profit endeavour as long
      as it does not involve the specific sale or rental of this package.
      Some specific but by no means exhaustive examples are listed below.
      Note that some of these situations may require additional action be
      taken to ensure compliance.
         + If this package or a derivative work allows you to serve data
           or make data available to others (for example, web servers,
           mail servers, gopher servers, etc.), you may use it to serve
           any commercial content or in any commercial setting whether
           you choose to charge a fee or not, as you are considered to be
           earning income from the content you serve and/or the services
           facilitated by your business and not from the sale of this
           package itself. (This is, of course, assuming that you are not
           charging a fee for sale or rental of this package or a
           derivative work based on this package in violation of the
           other license terms.) Similarly, any data you may acquire from
           the use of this package is yours, and not governed by this
           license in any way even if for-profit.
         + If you are selling a product that includes this package or a
           derivative work either as part of your product's requirements
           for function or as a bundled extra, such as an operating
           system distribution, you may charge a fee for your product as
           long as you also make this package or said derivative work
           available for free separately (such as by download or link
           back to this package's site), as you are considered to be
           requesting a fee for your own product and the package is
           merely included as a convenience to your users.
         + If you offer installation of this package or a derivative work
           as a service, you may charge a fee for the act of installation
           as long as you also make this package or said derivative work
           available for free (such as by download or link back to this
           package's site), as you are considered to be requesting a fee
           for the act of installation and not for the software you are
           installing.
         + The Author may also grant, in writing, other specified
           exemptions for your particular commercial purpose that do not
           contravene the spirit of this license or any license terms
           this package additionally carries.
    * In your derivative works based on this package, you may choose to
      offer warranty support or guarantees of performance. This does not
      in any way make the original Author legally, financially or in any
      other respect liable for claims issued under your warranty or
      guarantee, and you are solely responsible for the fulfillment of
      your terms even if the Author of the work you have based your work
      upon offers his or her own.
    * In your derivative works based on this package, you may further
      restrict the acceptable uses of your package or situations in which
      it may be employed as long as you clearly state that your terms
      apply only to your derivative work and not to the original
      reference distribution. However, you may not countermand or ignore,
      directly or otherwise, any restriction already made in the
      reference distribution's license, including in this document
      itself, in similar fashion to other licenses allowing compatible
      licenses to co-govern a particular package's use.

 What you must not do under this license

  Remember that these limits apply only to redistribution of a reference
  distribution, or to a true derivative work. If your project does not
  include this package or code based upon it, even if it requires this
  package to function, it is not considered subject to this license or
  these restrictions.
    * You must not charge a fee for purchase or rental of this package or
      any derivative work based on this package. It is still possible to
      use this package in a commercial environment, however -- see What
      you are permitted to do under this license.
    * You must not countermand or ignore, directly or otherwise, the
      restrictions already extant in this package's license in your
      derivative work based on it. As a corollary, you must not place
      your derivative work under a secondary license or description of
      terms that conflicts with it (for example, this license is not
      compatible with the GNU Public License).
    * You must not label any modified distribution of this package as a
      reference or otherwise official distribution without the permission
      of the original Author or Authors. You must clearly specify that
      your modified work is a derivative work, including binary-only
      releases if the original included source code and you do not even
      if you did not modify the source prior to compilation.

 What you must do under this license

    * You must agree to all terms specified (agreement to which is
      unconditionally signified by your usage, modification or
      repurposing of this package), or to remove the package from your
      computer and not use it further.
    * In the absence of any specific offer for redress or assistance
      under warranty or guarantee of performance that the Author of this
      package might make, you must agree to accept any and all liability
      that may come from the use of this package, proper or improper,
      real or imagined, and certify without condition that you use this
      product at your own risk with no guarantee of function,
      merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. If such offer
      of redress or assistance is extended, it is fulfillable only by the
      Author who extended the offer, which might not necessarily be this
      Author, nor might it be the Authors of any packages it might be
      based upon.
    * If you choose to publicly redistribute this package or create a
      derivative work based on this package, you must make it available
      without any purchase or rental fee of any kind.
    * If you choose to create a derivative work based on this package,
      your derivative work must be copyrighted, and must be governed
      under (at a minimum) the original package's license, which will
      necessarily include all terms noted here. As such, if you choose to
      distribute your derivative work, you must include a human-readable
      license in your distribution containing all restrictions of use,
      necessarily including this license, and any additional restrictions
      the Author has mandated that do not contravene this license which
      you and users of your derivative work must also honour.
    * If you choose to create and distribute a derivative work based on
      this package, your derivative work must clearly make reference to
      this package, any other packages your work or the original work
      might be based on, and all applicable copyrights, either in your
      documentation, your work's standard human-readable output, or both.
      A suggested method might be

    Contains or is based on the Foo software package.
    Copyright (C) 2112 D. Original Author. All rights reserved.
    http://their.web.site.invalid/

 Additional notes

  Enforcement is the responsibility of the Author. However, violation of
  this license may subject you to criminal and civil penalties depending
  on your country.

  This package is bound by the version of license that accompanies it.
  Future official versions of a particular package may use a more updated
  license, and you should always review the license before use. This
  license's most current version is always available from the following
  locations:

    [1]http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/
    [2]gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/ffsl/

  This license is version 1, dated 19 November 2006.


  The text of this license is available for re-use and re-distribution
  under the Creative Commons. The use of the term "Floodgap Free Software
  License" does not imply endorsement of packages using this license by
  Floodgap Systems or by Cameron Kaiser. Modified licenses using portions
  of these terms may refer to themselves as modified FFSL, with the
  proviso that their modifications be clearly marked in accordance with
  the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

  Only the text of this license, and not programs covered by this
  license, is so offered under Creative Commons.

References

  1. http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/
  2. gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/ffsl/

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