COPYING-PLAIN


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Plain English Copyright Notice

This file is not intended to be the actual License.  The reason this
file exists is that we here are programmers and engineers.  We aren't
lawyers.  We provide licenses that we THINK say the right things, but we
have our own intentions at heart.  This is a plain-english explanation
of what those intentions are, and if you follow them you will be within
the "spirit" of the license.

The intent is for us to enjoy writing software that is useful to us (the
AUTHORS) and allow others to use it freely and also benefit from the
work we put into making it.  We don't want to restrict others using it.
They should not *HAVE* to make the source code of the applications they
write that simply link to these libraries (be that statically or
dynamically), or for them to be limited as to what license they choose
to use (be it open, closed or anything else).  But we would like to know
you are using these libraries.  We simply would like to know that it has
been useful to someone.  This is why we ask for acknowledgement of some
sort.

You can do what you want with the source of this software - it doesn't
matter.  We still have it here for ourselves and it is open and free to
use and download and play with.  It can't be taken away.  We don't
really mind what you do with the source to your software.  We would
simply like to know that you are using it - especially if it makes it to
a commerical product.  If you simply contact all the AUTHORS (see below)
telling us, and then make sure you include a paragraph or page in the
manual for the product with the copyright notice and state that you used
this software, we will be very happy.  If you want to contribute back
modifications and fixes you may have made we will welcome those too with
open arms (generally).  If you want help with changes needed, ports
needed or features to be added, arrangements can be easily made with
some dialogue.

This is a Second Life script, "simply link to these libraries" means
including the script in an object and making the script no-modify, or
otherwise rendering the source code unreadable.  Any use of this script
that makes the source code readable must include the License unmodified
at the top of the source code.

David Seikel (Second Life user onefang Rejected).