Important Note: this license agreement is a modification of the BSD license. The modifications put certain restrictions on your admission of using ECJ in in published research results and published software. I think it's pretty reasonable, but if you require a different license for whatever reason, feel free to contact me at sean@cs.gmu.edu.
License Agreement
This software is Copyright 2000 by Sean Luke
All Rights Reserved
By using the source code, binary code files, or related data included in this distribution, you agree to the following terms of usage for this software distribution. In this license the Author means Sean Luke, and the Agent means any person authorized by the Author to maintain the software at present. You can determine the Agent by referring to the software's present distribution site (which as of January 2002 is located at http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/ec/ecj/ but is subject to change at any time without notice).
The Author hereby grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license, subject to third party intellectual property claims:
- to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute all or any portion of the source code or binary form of this software or related data with or without mdifications, or as part of a larger work; and
- under patents now or hereafter owned or controlled by the Author, to make, have made, use and sell ("Utilize") all or any portion of the source code or binary form of this software or related data, but solely to the extent that any such patent is reasonably necessary to enable you to Utilize all or any portion of the source code or binary form of this software or related data, and not to any greater extent that may be necessary to Utilize further modifications or combinations.
In return you agree to the following conditions:
- If you redistribute all or any portion of the source code of this software or related data, it must retain the above copyright notice and this license and disclaimer.
- If you redistribute all or any portion of this code in binary form, you must include the above copyright notice and this license and disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- You must not use the Author's name to endorse or promote products derived from this software without the specific prior written permission of the Author.
- If you publish research results derived through the use of all or any portion of this software or related data, you must make a reasonable effort to inform the Agent and provide the Agent with a reference to your published results. If a reasonable effort fails, but the Author or Agent later requests this reference, you must provide it. You must also acknowledge the use of this software in print in the body of your publication, unless your publication is two pages in length or less in published form.
- If you distribute or publish publically-available modifications to all or any portion of this software or related data, or produce a product for sale or for license which includes all or any portion of this software, you must you must make a reasonable effort to inform the Agent and provide the Agent with a reference to your publically-available modifications or product. If a reasonable effort fails, but the Author or Agent later requests this reference, you must provide it. You must also acknowledge use of this software in a prominent, publically-accessible location in said modifications or product.
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