COPYING-PLAIN

Plain English Copyright Notice

This file is not intended to be the actual License. The reason this file
exists is that we here are programmers and engineers. We are NOT lawyers 
(well at least the original authors were not). We provide licenses that
we THINK say the right things, but we have our own intentions at heart.
This is a plain-english explanation of what those intentions are,
and if you follow them you will be within the "spirit" of the license.

The intent is for us to enjoy writing software that is useful to us
(the AUTHORS) and allow others to use it freely and also benefit from
the work we put into making it. We do NOT want to restrict others using it.
They should not *HAVE* to make the source code of the applications
that they write that simply link to these libraries
(be it statically or dynamically), or for them to be limited as to what
license they choose to use (be it open, closed, or anything else).
But we would like to know you are using these libraries.
We simply would like to know that it has been useful to someone.
This is why we ask for acknowledgement of some sort.

You can do what you want with the source of this software - it does NOT
matter. We still have it here for ourselves and it is open and free to use
and download and play with. It cannot be taken away. We do NOT really mind
what you do with the source to your software. We would simply like to know
that you are using it - especially if it makes it to a commerical product.
If you simply e-mail all the AUTHORS (see COPYING and AUTHORS files)
telling us, and then make sure you include a paragraph or page in
the manual for the product with the copyright notice, and state that
you used this software, then we will be very happy. If you want to
contribute back modifications and fixes you may have made, then we will
welcome those, too, with open arms (generally). If you want help
with changes needed, ports needed or features to be added,
arrangements can be easily made with some dialogue.

Carsten Haitzler <raster@rasterman.com>