COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE
Copyright © Nicholas M Glykos
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What this means (in simple terms), is
that you can do whatever you want with the code as long as you don't come
back to me complaining about the outcomes of your acts. As Theo DeRaadt (of
OpenBSD) humorously puts it :
The two important implications of this type of licence are that
· you can freely use, modify and re-distribute the code irrespectively of whether you work in academia, or not in academia, or not work at all (ie. this is a free-for-all licence and not just the academics), and,
· you can freely incorporate the code in commercial products if you want to (and you are not required to release the source code, as happens for example with GPL-like licences).
Please note, however, that if you decide to incorporate the program in a commercial product which subsequently fails to sell even one copy, you should not even think of asking me to contribute towards your expenses. Additionally, most of my programs use the FFTW library for performing the FFTs, and FFTW is released under GPL (which means that if you do not wish to release the code, you will have to change the FFT library and the corresponding code).
... but [this software] must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
The two important implications of this type of licence are that
· you can freely use, modify and re-distribute the code irrespectively of whether you work in academia, or not in academia, or not work at all (ie. this is a free-for-all licence and not just the academics), and,
· you can freely incorporate the code in commercial products if you want to (and you are not required to release the source code, as happens for example with GPL-like licences).
Please note, however, that if you decide to incorporate the program in a commercial product which subsequently fails to sell even one copy, you should not even think of asking me to contribute towards your expenses. Additionally, most of my programs use the FFTW library for performing the FFTs, and FFTW is released under GPL (which means that if you do not wish to release the code, you will have to change the FFT library and the corresponding code).