discuss: TLF Open Software Licence

[Kevin O'Neill]

[ Please discuss this license.  -russ ]

The "TLF Open Software Licence" is a licence derived from the BSD
licence with the warranty conditions modified to comply with Australian
warranty law. As with the BSD licence it is a license template. To
generate your own license, change the values of OWNER, ORGANISATION and
YEAR from their original values as given here, and substitute your own.

-- BEGIN LICENSE --

Copyright <YEAR>, <OWNER>, All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the <ORGANISATION> nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.

To the extent permitted by law, the copyright owners of this software
and its contributors:

(i) exclude all warranties in relation to the software; and
(ii) exclude liability for all losses, costs, expenses and damages
arising in any way from the use of the software whether arising from or
in relation to breach of contract, negligence or any other tort, in
equity or otherwise. If the software is in breach of a warranty which is
implied by law, the copyright owners and contributors liability is
limited to the replacement of the software.

-- END LICENSE --

Please feel free to post this license to the license discussion list
with my contact details attached. 

Regards,

Kevin O'Neill

-- 
If you don't test then your code is only a collection of bugs which 
apparently behave like a working program. 

Website: http://www.rocketred.com.au/blogs/kevin/

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