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This site is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) "Copyleft" licence. That means you can use anything on it. You may modify it, rip it right off, in general do anything you like to the code as long as, if you release it, keep it free, under no other licence than the GFDL.

It also means you have to give me proper credit if you use anything.

If you are in doubt about the legality of using (or me having used) code or images, please contact me at toman AT webtoman DOT com

The legalese way of saying it:

Copyright (c)  2002-2010  Tommy A. Olsen.
	Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
	under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
	or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
	with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
	Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
	Free Documentation License".

So what is GFDL?

I cite from www.gnu.org:

0. PREAMBLE

The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.

Some Philosophy

copyleft icon You are a product of your own time, and your time is a product of past times. You have learned a lot from them. Copyleft ensures that everyone benefits from that knowledge without making it any one person or entity's property. It relies on the fairness of people, and indeed it encourages fairness. By using and creating Copylefted material, you ensure that the material will live, and you ensure that others will (must, really) let live. It is a modern day variant of free speech, applied to content on storage media (paper, canvas, hard-drives or any other media, like the air in which sound travel).

Why do I relate it so directly to free speech? I agree that it may sound far-fetched, but think about it, what is free speech really? Is it the freedom to say what you want? Certainly. But to me, it's more than that. It's about the right to say what I want even if someone else said it before me.

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