OASIS PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 1, September 1999

Copyright © 1999 Jonathan Blake. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document. If you modify this License in any way, you must remove all words and phrases associated with Jonathan Blake or Desert Lynx's Lone Wolf Oasis such as "Oasis", "Desert Lynx" or "jonblake@lw-oasis.org".

Preamble

This License is a derivative work of and owes much of its language to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2. The GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE can be obtained at http://www.gnu.org/ or by writing to:

Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

This License's purpose is to make appropriate modifications to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE to make it applicable to works other than software. This was acheived by replacing certain words that referred specifically to software or ideas associated with software. For example, "Program" was replaced by "Document" and "patent" was replaced by "copyright". Section 3 of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE was omitted as it dealt with ideas solely applicable to software.

The intent of this License it to allow distribution of a document but protect the rights of the document's recipients and of the original author. Only the author of the document holds copyrights. Recipients are granted rights sufficient to copy, modify and distribute the document only on condition that everyone (including those that receive a modified version) is allowed the exactly same rights without abridgement.

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0. Scope of License

0.0 This License applies to any Document or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this Oasis Public License. Such License notification must follow the pattern shown in Exhibit A. The "Document", below, refers to any such document or work, and a "work based on the Document" means either the Document or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Document 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".

0.1 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope.

1. License Notification

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2. Modification and Aggregation

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You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the Document and the date and nature of any change.
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2.1 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Document, 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 Document, 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.

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

2.4 You may not make any modifications to the Document or works based on the Document and/or aggregations of the Document with other works for which any party claims intellectual property rights such as would make void any portion of this License.

3. Termination of License

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6.1 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.

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

7. Limitation of Distribution

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9. Other Licenses

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

10. NO WARRANTY

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Exhibit A

This document is free information; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Oasis Public License as published by Desert Lynx's Lone Wolf Oasis <http://www.lw-oasis.org/>; either Version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This document 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 Oasis Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the Oasis Public License along with this document; if not, write to Desert Lynx's Lone Wolf Oasis via email at <jonblake@lw-oasis.org>.

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