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👤 Forrest J. Cavalier III🗓️ First Submitted: 1999-11-10💬 1 Events
Latest event👤 Forrest J. Cavalier III📅 1999-11-10Discuss
Of the popular OSD compliant licenses, I like the MIT style license, but I wanted something that goes a little bit further in protecting the author's name and integrity of origina

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With discussion and approval here, (and a better license name,) my hope is that many other developers will use the license when they wish to release open source software under a license that better protects name recognition. - - - - - - - - - - - - Copyright Notice - - - - - - - - - - - - Copyright 1999 Forrest J. Cavalier III MODIFICATION WARNING: This software may have been modified. See http://www.mibsoftware.com/libmib/ for documentation and up-to-date original copies, custom versions, support, or other licensing terms. Other licensing arrangements are made in writing. We would appreciate that you notify us of defect discoveries and enhancements so that others can benefit from improvements to this software. - - - - - - - - - - - - - License - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Permission is hereby granted, to any person obtaining a copy of this software (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, subject to all the following conditions. 1. The text beginning with the copyright notice above, and including the four clauses of this license shall be included in full and unmodified in all copies of the source files or portions thereof. 2. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. 3. The author(s) grant you a non-exclusive right to use the author- given names and trademarks of the Software to publish and distribute only unmodified source files. Your rights to deal in the Software under this license are subject to the condition that you do not use nor associate trademarks, names, or reputation of the author(s) with modified derivative works except within the source files. 4. 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. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.