Licensing

This directory contains the licence which applies to all material in the LumoSQL project.

MIT Licence

The MIT Licence applies to all files in this project. The MIT licence is the most-widely used Open Source licence, including by some of the world's largest companies. The MIT licence grants everyone the right to use the code for any purpose under copyright law. Every file should have a copyright statement at the top and also a Software Package Data Exchange machine-readable header, but even if it doesn't, the MIT licence still applies. It also applies to any file which is not clearly code, such as configuration or input data.

The LumoSQL Documentation is also generally covered by this MIT licence. There are documentation-specific licences and we will adopt one of them if the MIT licence ever becomes a problem.

To even further avoid potential misunderstanding, we maintain the site license.lumosql.org with the full text of the MIT Licence.

Copyright 2019-2020, The LumoSQL Authors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.