WIKI PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 1 November 2002

Preamble

This license is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free information (we use "information", "content" or "work" in an interchangeable way here) - to make sure information is free for all its users.

When we speak of free information, we are referring to freedom, not price. This license is designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free information (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the information or use pieces of it in new free information; and that you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the information, or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of such information, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the information, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the information.

Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free information.

$/!\$ This information is INTENDED to be modified by everyone (well, that's Wiki!), so we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the individual work of a specifiy person, but of a community, so that any problems introduced by some specific person shall not reflect on some of the other authors' reputations.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. This license applies to any information or work which is put into the Wiki by the copyright holder (and therefore putting it under the terms of this Wiki Public License). The "information", below, refers to any such information or work, and a "work based on the information" means either the information or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the information or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this license; they are outside its scope. The act of using the information is not restricted.

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the information as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this license and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the information a copy of this license along with the program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the information or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the information, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

a. You must cause the modified information to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change. In the Wiki, this is automatically done by the Wiki engine.

b. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the work or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this license.

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the information, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this license, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the information, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this license, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the information.

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the information with the information (or with a work based on the information) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this license.

3. You may copy and distribute the information (or a work based on it, under section 2) in non-transparent $/!\$ form under the terms of sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a. Accompany it with the complete corresponding transparent, machine-readable form /!\, which must be distributed under the terms of sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for information interchange; or,

b. Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing information distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding transparent form /!\, to be distributed under the terms of sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for information interchange; or,

c. Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding transparent form. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in non-transparent form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

The transparent form for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the information except as expressly provided under this license. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the information is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this license. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this license will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

5. You are not required to accept this license, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the information or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this license. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the information (or any work based on the information), you indicate your acceptance of this license to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the information or works based on it.

6. Each time you redistribute the information (or any work based on the information), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the information subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this license.

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this license, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this license. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this license and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the information at all. For example, if something would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the information by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this license would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the information.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free information distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of information distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute information through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this license.

8. If the distribution and/or use of the information is restricted in certain countries, the original copyright holder who places the information under this license may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this license incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this license.

9. The Wiki Community may publish revised and/or new versions of the Wiki Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the information specifies a version number of this license which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Wiki Community. If the Program does not specify a version number of this license, you may choose any version ever published by the Wiki Community.

10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the information into other free information whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission.

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE INFORMATION IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE INFORMATION, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE INFORMATION "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE INFORMATION PROVE WRONG, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE INFORMATION AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE INFORMATION (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Work

$/!\$ ToDo: make this more appropriate to Wiki usage

If you write a new work, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free information which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

To do so, put it in a Wiki that uses this license for its contents. The contents of such a Wiki are (c) by its authors and put by them under this license by posting it there. The Wiki shows this license at a prominent place, introducing it like that:

This is free information; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Wiki Public License as published by the Wiki Community; either version 1 of the license, or (at your option) any later version. This information 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 Wiki Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the Wiki Public License along with this information; if not, see it at the page WikiPublicLicense.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer or as a writer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the work, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the information / work written by James Writer.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice