psyced/LICENSE.txt

  psyced, a scalable distributed multi-protocol chat and messaging server
	 solution based on the PSYC protocol for synchronous conferencing.
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  Copyright (C) since 1997 by:
      Carlo von Loesch	(psyc://psyced.org/~lynX).

  Since 2002 copyright also in parts by:
      Philipp Hancke	(psyc://goodadvice.pages.de/~fippo)
      Tobias Josefowitz	(psyc://goodadvice.pages.de/~heldensaga)
      Arne G<>deke	(psyc://psyced.org/~el) and
      Dominik Sander	(psyc://psyced.org/~depairet).

  All development prior to 2010 has been published under a GNU GPL as
  described below. Development since 2010-01-01 is published under the
  MIT license also described below. To deploy psyced installations of
  versions since 2010, both license requirements must typically be met.

___ Until 2010:

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

___ Since 2010:

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files
    (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
    including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
    publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
    and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
    subject to the following conditions:

	The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
	included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

	THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
	EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
	MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
	IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
	CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
	TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
	SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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    This program is also available under different license from
    Carlo von Loesch and symlynX. To this purpose all copyright
    owners until 2010 grant Carlo von Loesch and symlynX the right
    to use and license this program in whatever suitable way.

    By the act of submitting code to the psyced maintainers you guarantee
    that you are either the author and copyright owner of the contribution
    you are making, or that you have a license to use said contribution in
    a way compatible with our licenses. If you fail to do so, you
    remain the sole responsible for your actions; no part of the
    responsibility will be transferred to symlynX.

    This means, for example, that you cannot contribute code elements
    which stem from an other GPL project, as this would not comply with
    the MIT license requirement after 2010.

    You can however keep this kind of modifications to yourself, or
    publish your own GPL licensed fork of this software, or - in agreement
    with us - add optional parts to this software clearly marked as not
    adhering to this license.