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diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..848494be --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# License of vichan +Copyright (c) 2012-2014 vichan-devel + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights +to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell +copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is +furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + +All copyright notices and permission notices (including this file) shall be +included and remain unedited in all copies or substantial portions of the +Software. This explicitly includes but is not limited to the vichan copyright +notices found in the footers of some template files. + +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. + +# License of Tinyboard +This code is licensed under BOTH a vichan license and a Tinyboard license. +You must agree to both (not either) licensing terms in order to use this +software. The Tinyboard license terms can be found in a LICENSE.Tinyboard.md +file. + +# Brief +This section is not a law code, it just describes the license in a +human-friendly way. + +Both licenses are slight modifications of the MIT/X11 license. This is a +permissive license, you can do anything with code, but you just have to leave +copyright notices untouched. Beside, we give you absolutely no guarantees. + +Tinyboard and vichan licenses also clarify, that the copyright notices found +in the template footers are also covered by the copyright notice preservation +clause. + +# Exception +It is explicitly allowed for the Tinyboard upstream, to take vichan +changesets under a Tinyboard license. |