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Floodgap Free Software License
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The author of your software has chosen to distribute it under the
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Floodgap Free Software License. Although this software is without cost,
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it is not released under Copyleft or GPL, and there are differences
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which you should read. Your use of this software package constitutes
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your binding acceptance without restriction.
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This software is without cost
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The Floodgap Free Software License (FFSL) has one overriding mandate:
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that software using it, or derivative works based on software that uses
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it, must be free. By free we mean simply "free as in beer" -- you may
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put your work into open or closed source packages as you see fit,
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whether or not you choose to release your changes or updates publicly,
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but you must not ask any fee for it. (There are certain exceptions for
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for-profit use which we will discuss below.)
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Definitions and terms
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Author
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The declared copyright owner of this software package.
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Binary
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A pre-compiled or pre-interpreted bytecode or machine language
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representation of a software package not designed for further
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modification and tied to a particular platform or architecture.
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Derivative work
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Any distribution (q.v.) that contains any modification to or
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deviation from the official reference distribution (q.v.); or
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any software package significantly based on or integrally
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including the source code for its features, including but not
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limited to supersets; subsets of a significant proportion;
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in-place patched changes to source or binary files; linking in
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as a library; binary-only distributions if the original package
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included source (even if the source was not modified prior to
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compilation); or translations to another programming language,
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architecture or operating system environment. Derivative works
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of packages released under this license are also considered
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subject to this license.
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However, a software package that requires this package but does
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not include it or is not based upon it, even if it will not
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operate without it, is not considered a derivative work. For
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example, interpreted programs requiring an interpreter issued
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under this license, assuming they are not distributed with any
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portion of the interpreter, are not derivative works.
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Distribution
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A packaged release of this software, either the author's
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original work (the "reference distribution") or a derivative
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work based upon it.
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Reference distribution
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A packaged release of this software explicitly designated as the
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official release, written by or on behalf of the Author with his
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or her explicit designation as official. Only exact copies of
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the reference distribution may be called reference
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distributions; all other forms are derivative works.
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Source code
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The human-readable programming instructions of the package which
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might be easily read as text and subsequently edited, but
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requiring compilation or interpretation into binary before being
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directly useable.
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What you are permitted to do under this license
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Pursuant to the remainder of the terms below,
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* You may freely use, copy, and disseminate this software package for
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any non-commercial purpose as well as the commercial purposes
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permitted below.
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* You may freely modify this package, including source code if
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available. Your modifications need not be released, although you
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are encouraged to do so.
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* You may release your derivative works based upon this software in
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purely binary (non-source) form if you choose. You are not
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obligated to release any portion of your source code openly,
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although you are encouraged to do so.
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* If this package is a tool used for generation, compilation or
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maintenance of works, including but not limited to readable
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documents, software packages or images (for example, compilers,
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interpreters, translators, linkers, editors, assemblers or
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typesetters), you may freely use it for that purpose, commercial or
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otherwise, as the works made by this package are not considered
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subject to this license unless specified otherwise within and may
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be distributed under any desired license and/or offered for sale or
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rental. Any run-time library or run-time code section linked into
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the output by a compiler or similar code-generating tool governed
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by this license is considered to be an integral part of the output,
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and its presence does not subject the generated work to this
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license either. (This is, of course, assuming you are not using
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said tools to generate a derivative work based on this package in
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violation of the other license terms.)
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However, if you are linking or including a separately distributed
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library that is under this license, no matter what tool you are
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using to do the linking or inclusion, you are then considered to be
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making a derivative work based on that library and your work does
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fall under this license. To avoid this, do not include the library
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with your work (even though it needs the library to function) and
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instead offer the library separately without cost.
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* In addition to non-commercial use and the uses permitted above, you
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may use this software package in any for-profit endeavour as long
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as it does not involve the specific sale or rental of this package.
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Some specific but by no means exhaustive examples are listed below.
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Note that some of these situations may require additional action be
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taken to ensure compliance.
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+ If this package or a derivative work allows you to serve data
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or make data available to others (for example, web servers,
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mail servers, gopher servers, etc.), you may use it to serve
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any commercial content or in any commercial setting whether
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you choose to charge a fee or not, as you are considered to be
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earning income from the content you serve and/or the services
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facilitated by your business and not from the sale of this
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package itself. (This is, of course, assuming that you are not
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charging a fee for sale or rental of this package or a
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derivative work based on this package in violation of the
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other license terms.) Similarly, any data you may acquire from
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the use of this package is yours, and not governed by this
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license in any way even if for-profit.
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+ If you are selling a product that includes this package or a
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derivative work either as part of your product's requirements
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for function or as a bundled extra, such as an operating
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system distribution, you may charge a fee for your product as
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long as you also make this package or said derivative work
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available for free separately (such as by download or link
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back to this package's site), as you are considered to be
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requesting a fee for your own product and the package is
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merely included as a convenience to your users.
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+ If you offer installation of this package or a derivative work
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as a service, you may charge a fee for the act of installation
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as long as you also make this package or said derivative work
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available for free (such as by download or link back to this
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package's site), as you are considered to be requesting a fee
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for the act of installation and not for the software you are
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installing.
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+ The Author may also grant, in writing, other specified
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exemptions for your particular commercial purpose that do not
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contravene the spirit of this license or any license terms
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this package additionally carries.
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* In your derivative works based on this package, you may choose to
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offer warranty support or guarantees of performance. This does not
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in any way make the original Author legally, financially or in any
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other respect liable for claims issued under your warranty or
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guarantee, and you are solely responsible for the fulfillment of
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your terms even if the Author of the work you have based your work
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upon offers his or her own.
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* In your derivative works based on this package, you may further
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restrict the acceptable uses of your package or situations in which
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it may be employed as long as you clearly state that your terms
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apply only to your derivative work and not to the original
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reference distribution. However, you may not countermand or ignore,
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directly or otherwise, any restriction already made in the
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reference distribution's license, including in this document
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itself, in similar fashion to other licenses allowing compatible
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licenses to co-govern a particular package's use.
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What you must not do under this license
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Remember that these limits apply only to redistribution of a reference
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distribution, or to a true derivative work. If your project does not
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include this package or code based upon it, even if it requires this
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package to function, it is not considered subject to this license or
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these restrictions.
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* You must not charge a fee for purchase or rental of this package or
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any derivative work based on this package. It is still possible to
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use this package in a commercial environment, however -- see What
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you are permitted to do under this license.
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* You must not countermand or ignore, directly or otherwise, the
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restrictions already extant in this package's license in your
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derivative work based on it. As a corollary, you must not place
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your derivative work under a secondary license or description of
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terms that conflicts with it (for example, this license is not
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compatible with the GNU Public License).
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* You must not label any modified distribution of this package as a
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reference or otherwise official distribution without the permission
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of the original Author or Authors. You must clearly specify that
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your modified work is a derivative work, including binary-only
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releases if the original included source code and you do not even
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if you did not modify the source prior to compilation.
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What you must do under this license
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* You must agree to all terms specified (agreement to which is
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unconditionally signified by your usage, modification or
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repurposing of this package), or to remove the package from your
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computer and not use it further.
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* In the absence of any specific offer for redress or assistance
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under warranty or guarantee of performance that the Author of this
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package might make, you must agree to accept any and all liability
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that may come from the use of this package, proper or improper,
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real or imagined, and certify without condition that you use this
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product at your own risk with no guarantee of function,
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merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. If such offer
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of redress or assistance is extended, it is fulfillable only by the
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Author who extended the offer, which might not necessarily be this
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Author, nor might it be the Authors of any packages it might be
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based upon.
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* If you choose to publicly redistribute this package or create a
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derivative work based on this package, you must make it available
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without any purchase or rental fee of any kind.
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* If you choose to create a derivative work based on this package,
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your derivative work must be copyrighted, and must be governed
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under (at a minimum) the original package's license, which will
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necessarily include all terms noted here. As such, if you choose to
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distribute your derivative work, you must include a human-readable
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license in your distribution containing all restrictions of use,
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necessarily including this license, and any additional restrictions
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the Author has mandated that do not contravene this license which
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you and users of your derivative work must also honour.
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* If you choose to create and distribute a derivative work based on
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this package, your derivative work must clearly make reference to
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this package, any other packages your work or the original work
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might be based on, and all applicable copyrights, either in your
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documentation, your work's standard human-readable output, or both.
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A suggested method might be
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Contains or is based on the Foo software package.
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Copyright (C) 2112 D. Original Author. All rights reserved.
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http://their.web.site.invalid/
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Additional notes
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Enforcement is the responsibility of the Author. However, violation of
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this license may subject you to criminal and civil penalties depending
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on your country.
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This package is bound by the version of license that accompanies it.
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Future official versions of a particular package may use a more updated
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license, and you should always review the license before use. This
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license's most current version is always available from the following
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locations:
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[1]http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/
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[2]gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/ffsl/
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This license is version 1, dated 19 November 2006.
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This license is copyright © 2006 Cameron Kaiser. All rights reserved.
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The text of this license is available for re-use and re-distribution
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under the Creative Commons. The use of the term "Floodgap Free Software
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License" does not imply endorsement of packages using this license by
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Floodgap Systems or by Cameron Kaiser. Modified licenses using portions
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of these terms may refer to themselves as modified FFSL, with the
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proviso that their modifications be clearly marked, as specified below:
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[3]Creative Commons License-[4][somerights20.png]
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This work is licensed under a [5]Creative Commons
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Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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Only the text of this license, and not programs covered by this
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license, is so offered under Creative Commons.
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References
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1. http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/
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2. gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/ffsl/
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3. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
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4. http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png
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5. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
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