Xinf Copyright and License

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Xinf source code is Copyright (C) 2006-2008 by the respective contributors of individual code lines. The respective contributor is mentioned on SVN check-in ("courtesy of"), or if such statement is missing, denoted by the username that did the check-in.

Current contributors to Xinf are:

  • Daniel Turing/Fischer (Turing is a pseudonym)
  • Russel Weir
  • Zjnue Brzavi (respectively the person behind that pseudonym)

License

Xinf source code is published under the "GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 plus Linking Exception" (LGPL+LE). The LGPL text can be found on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.

Additionally, we add the common "linking exception", notably to allow inclusion of compiled Xinf code into binary distributed .SWF files:

As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this

library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

Please note that Xinf SVN, haxelibs and possibly other distributions might include other software that has different license terms. Notable, some of the Xinfinity helper libraries are published under the LGPL *without* linking exception, so any binary distribution will have to carry those libraries in their original dynamic-linking form (DLL/so) to allow user replacement of these libraries.