General Public Licence -- 20th January 1993 Version 1.00 (Non-Chargeable Software) Copyright (c) 1993 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard. All Rights Reserved. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, c/o 1 Queen's Close KENILWORTH CV8 1JR, United Kingdom Telephone +44 926 484514 (1000-1800 GMT) This file is plain ASCII text with embedded tabs and form-feeds. It may be viewed with an ASCII file viewer. This is preferable to printing it out, because saving paper saves the environment. To view : LIST COPYING.DOC (Vernon Buerg's file viewer) To print : PRINT COPYING.DOC (MDOS and OS/2 print utility) CREDIT Credit where credit is due. This document was inspired by the FSF General Public License ("'c' for common noun", people !). However, it is not that licence, and items covered by this licence are not covered by the FSF licence. APOLOGIA I have tried to write this document in Real English, rather than any legal argot (dictionary definition: "The language of thieves"). So when I say "spade", please read "groundsoil restructuring implement". DEFINITIONS The "Software" is the Command Line Utilities Package as I have uploaded it to Mission Impossible BBS and IBM OS/2 2.0 BBS in the United Kingdom. "I" refers to the copyright holder and "You" the licensee. THIS LICENCE I retain copyright over this licence. You may not alter it. However, I grant you permission to use it in relation to any of your own works not in any way already covered by it. I retain copyright over the Software. However, I grant you this licence to retain, copy, use, and redistribute it, subject to some conditions. If you violate these conditions, you implicitly surrender all rights to the Software. If you exercise any or the rights to copy, use, or redistribute the Software granted to you by this Licence, you implicitly indicate your acceptance of its terms. If you wish to redistribute the Software or a derivative under any other terms and conditions, you must obtain written permision from me. This Licence has a version number and date. Any Software covered by a version of this Licence either states the version number or numbers that are applicable, or should be considered to be covered by the latest version of this Licence dated before the date of the Software. Programs licenced under this licence fall into three categories, covered by different versions of the licence : Shareware & Registered Software, Non-Chargeable Software, and Source Licenced Software. GUARANTEE or WARRANTY There is no guarantee or warranty. If you redistribute the Software, your relation to third parties is the same as mine to you in this respect, unless you specifically issue a warranty (in which case, do not involve me please), for which you may charge a fee. (Non-chargeable Software) Since you have not paid any money for this version of the Software, there is no guarantee or warranty, nor any promise that the Software is of any merchantable quality, that it does what it is claimed that it does, not even that it does anything at all. The Software is supplied "as-is", and any risks you take by having or using it are entirely your own. If anything happens to you, your machine, your data, or your cat (for all I know) as a result of possession or use of the Software, you have no legal redress, except any given to you by statute of course. COPYING, USE, MODIFICATION and REDISTRIBUTION (Non-chargeable Software) You may make as many copies as you like of the Software for archival and security purposes, or redistribution. You may only redistribute the original shareware form of the Software without modifications, and may not transfer anything other than the whole Software complete with documentation and licence. You may not charge for redistribution other than for time and materials. You may not modify, discompile, or reverse engineer the Software.