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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -# License -Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Tinyboard Development Group (tinyboard.org) +# 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 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ 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 Tinyboard copyright +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 @@ -20,3 +20,47 @@ 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 original Tinyboard license can be found in a LICENSE.Tinyboard.md +file, it is included below for your convenience: + +Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Tinyboard Development Group (tinyboard.org) + +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 Tinyboard 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. + +# 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. |