1 \Rainbows! is copyrighted Free Software by all contributors, see the logs in
2 revision control for names and email addresses of all of them.
4 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the
5 GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
6 Foundation (FSF), either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
7 any later version. We currently prefer the GPLv3 or later for
8 derivative works, but the GPLv2 is fine.
10 The complete texts of the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are below:
11 GPLv2 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
12 GPLv3 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
14 You may (against our _preference_) also use the Ruby 1.8 license terms.
16 === Ruby 1.8-specific terms (if you're not using the GPLv2/GPLv3)
18 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
19 software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
20 original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
22 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that
23 you do at least ONE of the following:
25 a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
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27 equivalent medium, or by allowing the author to include your
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30 b) use the modified software only within your corporation or
33 c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with
34 standard executables, which must also be provided.
36 d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
38 3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
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60 and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
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