Bistro Software Notice

Copyright 1999-2001 Nikolas S. Boyd. All rights reserved. http://bistro.sourceforge.net/license.htm

This work (software, documents, and other related items) is being provided by the copyright holder under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or copying this software, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions:

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the software and documentation or portions thereof, including modifications, that you make:

  1. The full text of this Notice in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work.
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  3. Notice of any changes or modifications to the original files, including the date changes were made. (It is recommended you provide URIs to the location from which the code is derived - e.g., http://bistro.sourceforge.net/).

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This formulation of the Bistro license was derived from that used by the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Hence, this work qualifies as Open Source.