Peruser Licensing, Warrantees, Legal Issues

Peruser is an open-source project which is offered by the contributors under terms of the Apache 2.0 License. If you download this software, you are bound by the terms of the license, so you should read it before downloading.  You will find a notice like this at the top of each file in the distribution, which you must preserve whenever and wherevery you copy or redistribute any of the files in the distribution, whether or not you modify those files or copy only a portion of them:

#  ------------------------- BEGIN LEGAL NOTICE ---------------------------
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#  Copyright 2008 by Stu Baurmann
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#  This file is part of the Peruser framework, available online at:
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#       http://www.peruser.net
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#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#  limitations under the License.
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#  This entire LEGAL NOTICE must be preserved in all copies and redistributions 
#  of this file, or any portion of its contents.
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#  ------------------------- END LEGAL NOTICE ---------------------------

Third Party Components

In addition to providing source code for the Peruser software itself, we also provide access to a downloadable file archive containing third-party open source components that are needed by the peruser.  Not all of these components are needed for all peruser configurations, but it is generally more convenient for users to download them all at once so that they can try them out easily.  For you convenience, we provide a single download archive with all these components, and include copyright notices and for all components as required.  To the best of our understanding, our distribution of all of these components is in full compliance with the licenses of these components.  However, for you to use or redistribute these components, you will need to review the license of each piece of software and determine how you and your organization can comply with the terms of use and/or redisribution of that component.

Materials copyright (or copyleft!)  by others which we provide access to are offered with no implied license from us (you must inspect and agree to the license terms of each downloaded component yourself), and no warranty by us.  You must research all license, copyright, trademark, and patent issues yourself, and we cannot warranty (or offer licenses for) what is in any jar files that we have downloaded and are simply redistributing for your convenience.

We attempt to use and redistribute mostly Apache-License-compatible licensed, which to us means BSD / MIT / Apache style open-source licenses. However, we also appreciate and sometimes redistribute tools offered under other licenses, including the GNU LGPL (Lesser Gnu Public License).   To the best of our knowledge, all such components are clearly indicated in the peruser_NOTICE.txt file included with all downloads.   All responsibility for complying with the license terms of these tools rests with you and any organizations that you represent.

To the best of our knowledge, we do not redistribute any components governed by the full Gnu Public License (which has stricter terms than the LGPL).  It is to maintain this separation that we refrain from distributing the MySQL JDBC driver, for example, which otherwise might be a useful thing for us to include in our downloads.

Note that the "Toolchest" demonstration application makes use of Mike Bergman's SWEET Tools dataset, which is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License, version 2.5.

Additional Recommended Components

In the Peruser documentation, we sometimes mention or recommend use of tools which have other kinds of licenses, including GNU, CreativeCommons, commercial, or other. All responsibility for obtaining these tools and complying with their licenses rests with you and any organizations that you represent.