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3 | NETHACK GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | ||
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5 | (Copyright 1989 M. Stephenson) | ||
6 | (Based on the BISON general public license, copyright 1988 Richard M. Stallman) | ||
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8 | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license, | ||
9 | but changing it is not allowed. You can also use this wording to make the terms | ||
10 | for other programs. | ||
11 | The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the mercy of | ||
12 | those companies. By contrast, our general public license is intended to give | ||
13 | everyone the right to share NetHack. To make sure that you get the rights we | ||
14 | want you to have, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you | ||
15 | these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. Hence this license | ||
16 | agreement. | ||
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18 | Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give away copies | ||
19 | of NetHack, that you receive source code or else can get it if you want it, | ||
20 | that you can change NetHack or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that | ||
21 | you know you can do these things. | ||
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23 | To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to deprive | ||
24 | anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute copies of NetHack, | ||
25 | you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure | ||
26 | that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must tell them | ||
27 | their rights. | ||
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29 | Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds out that | ||
30 | there is no warranty for NetHack. If NetHack is modified by someone else and | ||
31 | passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not what we | ||
32 | distributed. | ||
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34 | Therefore we (Mike Stephenson and other holders of NetHack copyrights) make the | ||
35 | following terms which say what you must do to be allowed to distribute or | ||
36 | change NetHack. | ||
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38 | COPYING POLICIES | ||
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40 | You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of NetHack source code as you | ||
41 | receive it, in any medium, provided that you keep intact the notices on all | ||
42 | files that refer to copyrights, to this License Agreement, and to the absence | ||
43 | of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the NetHack program a copy of | ||
44 | this License Agreement along with the program. | ||
45 | You may modify your copy or copies of NetHack or any portion of it, and copy | ||
46 | and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph 1 above | ||
47 | (including distributing this License Agreement), provided that you also do the | ||
48 | following: | ||
49 | a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed | ||
50 | the files and the date of any change; and | ||
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52 | b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or | ||
53 | in part contains or is a derivative of NetHack or any part thereof, to be | ||
54 | licensed at no charge to all third parties on terms identical to those | ||
55 | contained in this License Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more | ||
56 | extensive warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your option) | ||
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58 | c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a | ||
59 | copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a | ||
60 | fee. | ||
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62 | You may copy and distribute NetHack (or a portion or derivative of it, under | ||
63 | Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Paragraphs 1 | ||
64 | and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: | ||
65 | a) accompany it with the complete machine-readable source code, which must be | ||
66 | distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, | ||
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68 | b) accompany it with full information as to how to obtain the complete machine- | ||
69 | readable source code from an appropriate archive site. (This alternative is | ||
70 | allowed only for noncommercial distribution.) | ||
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72 | For these purposes, complete source code means either the full source | ||
73 | distribution as originally released over Usenet or updated copies of the files | ||
74 | in this distribution used to create the object code or executable. | ||
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76 | You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer NetHack except as | ||
77 | expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt otherwise to copy, | ||
78 | sublicense, distribute or transfer NetHack is void and your rights to use the | ||
79 | program under this License agreement shall be automatically terminated. | ||
80 | However, parties who have received computer software programs from you with | ||
81 | this License Agreement will not have their licenses terminated so long as such | ||
82 | parties remain in full compliance. | ||
83 | Stated plainly: You are permitted to modify NetHack, or otherwise use parts of | ||
84 | NetHack, provided that you comply with the conditions specified above; in | ||
85 | particular, your modified NetHack or program containing parts of NetHack must | ||
86 | remain freely available as provided in this License Agreement. In other words, | ||
87 | go ahead and share NetHack, but don't try to stop anyone else from sharing it | ||
88 | farther. | ||
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93 | Hosted by: | ||
94 | NetHack is Copyright 1985-2003 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. | ||
95 | Stephenson. See our license for details. | ||
96 | This site is Copyright 1999-2009 by Kenneth Lorber, Kensington, Maryland. | ||
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