Summary: License

This document summarizes the licenses, and your rights with
regard to this project. It is recommended to read this before
downloading or browsing the sources.


Topic: Preface

The author's opinion is that development should not be hindred by
excessive restrictions and fees, and that his experience may be
shared with others so that it may be of the most use possible.

Hence, most of the sourcecode is released into the public domain.

To ease the work, the author has used some third party libraries 
which add some restrictions of themselves.

To read up on the specific details, you should read the licenses
involved
    - <Public Domain>
    - <LGPL Special> (<GNU LGPL>)

Since I am not a lawyer I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the
content of this document. Contact a legal advisor if you need to
be sure.


Topic: Source Licensing

Since parts of the sourcecode uses a copyleft-based license you
have one of these options at your disposal

option 1:
    You should always distribute the source in full, including
    copyright notes and related documents

option 2:
    If you are familiar with the LGPL license you may notice that
    you can keep the LGPL and public domain code separate: You can
    therefore remove the LGPL code and do with the rest as you
    please.


Topic: Binary Licensing

Since the licenses involved allow full freedom over the binaries
produced, you can distribute all binaries as you see fit.

I do recommend that you include the 'standard disclaimer' as part
of your distribution


Topic: Licensing Morale

Since the licenses allows you to DO a lot, it doesnt mean you
SHOULD.

Among these, it is always appreciated when the original authors are
credited. Words of appreciation are always welcome, and it would be
great if you would keep the sources open for everybody so that more
knowledge is released into the world.


Topic: Foreign law

The author lives in a country where law does not support software
patents, and where there are normally no restrictions on the use of
encryption and related subjects. You should be aware of the fact
that your local laws may be less liberal and that using,
distributing, and possibly even downloading may be illegal. For
example, in the United States of America the software is known to
infringe at least several software patents. As said before, I am
not a lawyer, hence you should seek legal council when in doubt.


Topic: Credits

Author:
    Marcel Sondaar

Other developers:
    Bogdan Barbu

Thanks to:
    Martin 'Solar' Baute - For writing the Public Domain C library
    The FreeBasic Team - For providing one of the better compilers around
    Brendan Trotter - For being the best human source of information around,
                      and for writing the SFS specification.
    Zach "Blizzarddog" Hogarth - The most prominent source of comments
    The osdev.org community - For sharing ideas and help (<http://www.osdev.org>)
