KallistiOS licensing information


Note that unlike previous projects (libdream, s3mplay, etc), KallistiOS
is licensed under the more restrictive GPL. For all files that are
copyrighted by the authors of KallistiOS (Dan Potter or Jordan DeLong) you
can assume that this text is attached to them:

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
 
  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.
 
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Please read "README.GPL" if you are not familiar with this license. For
the purposes of KallistiOS, It can be summed up thus:

- If you modify this program (derivative work) and distribute binaries of
any form, you must also post your source code changes and tell the users
of the binary where you posted them; 

- If you link this program with another piece of code, then the whole is
considered a derivative work, and thus must be distributable under the
terms of the GPL (this includes the user library "libk");

- If you include a KOS binary statically linked into the kernel then
this is the same as linking your code in directly, and therefore falls
under the same restrictions. This is a form of static linking.

I'm not sure I like the GPL as much as I like the LGPL or X11 licenses,
but this is done in the spirit of trying to ensure that this development
tool isn't used by commercial developers who want to bypass Sega (and
use our hard-earned code in a commercial product without giving us
something ;-). If there is ever a question or you want to ask permission
to do something else with it, please contact the authors and we'll see
how we can accomidate you.

The Free Software Foundation is the definitive source of information on
the GPL license. Please see this page if you have license compatability
questions:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

All of that applies only to the part of KOS that is copyrighted by the
authors, which is to say, not the BSD code we included. For information
on the BSD code, please reference README.BSD.


KOS Version Id: $Id: LICENSE,v 1.1 2000/11/11 23:45:00 bard Exp $

