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diff --git a/COPYING.txt b/COPYING.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4994ef1fa --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING.txt @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +================== + Copying Docutils +================== + +:Author: David Goodger +:Contact: goodger@users.sourceforge.net +:Date: $Date$ +:Web site: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ +:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain. + +Most of the files included in this project have been placed in the +public domain, and therefore have no license requirements and no +restrictions on copying or usage; see the `Public Domain Dedication`_ +below. There are a few exceptions_, listed below. + +One goal of the Docutils project is to be included in the Python +standard library distribution, at which time it is expected that +copyright will be asserted by the `Python Software Foundation +<http://www.python.org/psf/>`_. + + +Public Domain Dedication +======================== + +The persons who have associated their work with this project (the +"Dedicator": David Goodger and the many contributors to the Docutils +project) hereby dedicate the entire copyright, less the exceptions_ +listed below, in the work of authorship known as "Docutils" identified +below (the "Work") to the public domain. + +The primary repository for the Work is the Internet World Wide Web +site <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/>. The Work consists of the +files within the "docutils" module of the Docutils project Subversion +repository (Internet host svn.berlios.de, filesystem path +/svnroot/repos/docutils), whose Internet web interface is located at +<http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/docutils/>. Files dedicated to the +public domain may be identified by the inclusion, near the beginning +of each file, of a declaration of the form:: + + Copyright: This document/module/DTD/stylesheet/file/etc. has been + placed in the public domain. + +Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large +and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs and successors. Dedicator +intends this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in +perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, +whether vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicator understands that +such relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all +rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the +Work. + +Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work +may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, +built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, +commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods +that have not yet been invented or conceived. + +(This dedication is derived from the text of the `Creative Commons +Public Domain Dedication +<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain>`_.) + + +Exceptions +========== + +The exceptions to the `Public Domain Dedication`_ above are: + +* docutils/writers/s5_html/themes/default/iepngfix.htc: + + IE5.5+ PNG Alpha Fix v1.0 by Angus Turnbull + <http://www.twinhelix.com>. Free usage permitted as long as + this notice remains intact. + +* extras/optparse.py, copyright by Gregory P. Ward, released under a + BSD-style license (which can be found in the module's source code). + +* extras/textwrap.py, copyright by Gregory P. Ward and the Python + Software Foundation, released under the `Python 2.3 license`_ + (`local copy`__). + + __ licenses/python-2-3.txt + +* extras/roman.py, copyright by Mark Pilgrim, released under the + `Python 2.1.1 license`_ (`local copy`__). + + __ licenses/python-2-1-1.txt + +* test/docutils_difflib.py, copyright by the Python Software + Foundation, released under the `Python 2.2 license`_ (`local + copy`__). This file is included for compatibility with Python + versions less than 2.2. (It's only used to report test failures + anyhow; it isn't installed anywhere. 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