Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!mutec!Top From: Top@mutec.UUCP (The OS9 Project) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: comp.sys.68k Message-ID: <447@mutec.UUCP> Date: 19 Jul 88 12:42:42 GMT Reply-To: Top@mutec.UUCP (The OS9 Project) Organization: Markt&Technik Verlag AG, Haar, W-Germany Lines: 114 TOP GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TOP is an acronym for "The OS-9 Project Munich". The current members are: Reimer Mellin, Muenchen Frank Kaefer, Starnberg Ulli Dessauer, Germering Wolfgang Ocker, Puchheim In this public license agreement the term "TOPS" refers to the software released by TOP Munich. The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is intended to give everyone the right to share TOPS. To make sure that you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. Hence this license agreement. Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give away copies of TOPS, that you can get it if you want it, that you can change TOPS or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute copies of TOPS, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. And you must tell them their rights. Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds out that there is no warranty for TOPS. If TOPS is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation. Therefore we (TOP Munich) make the following terms which say what you must do to be allowed to distribute or change TOPS. COPYING POLICIES 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of TOPS as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice of the author (or with the year updated if that is appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer to this License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of TOPS a copy of this License Agreement along with the program. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of TOPS or any portion of it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following: a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change; and b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of TOPS or any part thereof, to be freely distributed and licensed to all third parties on terms identical to those contained in this License Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive warranty protection to third parties, at your option). 3. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer TOPS except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer TOPS is void and your rights to use the program under this License agreement shall be automatically terminated. However, parties who have received computer software programs from you with this License Agreement will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. In other words, go ahead and share TOPS, but don't try to stop anyone else from sharing it farther. Help stamp out software hoarding! NO WARRANTY Because TOPS is licensed free of charge, we provide absolutely no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable state law. Except when otherwise stated in writing, TOP (i.e. the members of TOP) and/or other parties provide TOPS "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of TOPS is with YOU. Should TOPS prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. In no event unless required by applicable law will the members of TOP, and/or any other party who may modify and redistribute TOPS as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any lost profits, lost monies, or other special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs) TOPS, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party. The copyrights by the original authors of the ported software remain absolutly intact. Please refer to the supplied documentation.