Pete's Public License version 1.0

This software is Copyright © 2002-2004 Peter Yandell. All Rights Reserved.

Peter Yandell can be contacted by e-mail at pete@yandell.com.

More information on this software can be found at http://pete.yandell.com/software/.

Introduction

I've tried to keep this license very simple and easy to understand, so please take the time to read it.

This license ensures a couple of things that are for your benefit:

• The software must always be distributed packaged with it's documentation and any other support files.
• Nobody can attempt to rip you off by charging a fee for the software.

It also ensures a few things that are important to me:

• Nobody else can claim credit for my software.
• Nobody can change my software and then blame me when it doesn't work.
• If somebody wants to use my software as part of their own work, they have to ask my permission first.
• There's no warranty on my software.

If you're into licenses, you'll realise that this license qualifies as free-as-in-beer, but not free-as-in-speech. In particular it only grants freedoms zero to two as defined by the Free Software Foundation. With this license I've reserved the right to grant freedom three at my option.

Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification

0. "Original Work" means the complete contents of the disk image or tar file that contains the Software as distributed by the Copyright Holder. "Derived Work" means any work derived from the Original Work under copyright law, including any work containing all or part of the Original Work, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.

1. You may freely use, copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Original Work.

2. You may NOT charge a fee for the Original Work, although you may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy of the Original Work.

3. You may modify the original work, thereby creating a Derived Work and you may use this Derived Work.

4. You may NOT distribute any Derived Work without first obtaining explicit written permission from the Copyright Holder of the Original Work.

5. The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement of third party rights. In no event shall the Copyright Holder be liable for any claim or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in action or of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.