Source for org.jfree.ui.about.Licences

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  27:  * -------------
  28:  * Licences.java
  29:  * -------------
  30:  * (C) Copyright 2001-2004, by Object Refinery Limited.
  31:  *
  32:  * Original Author:  David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
  33:  * Contributor(s):   -;
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  35:  * $Id: Licences.java,v 1.4 2005/11/16 15:58:41 taqua Exp $
  36:  *
  37:  * Changes
  38:  * -------
  39:  * 26-Nov-2001 : Version 1 (DG);
  40:  * 29-Jan-2002 : Appended the instructions to the end of the GNU LGPL and GPL to comply with
  41:  *               GNU requirements (DG);
  42:  * 28-Feb-2002 : Moved to package com.jrefinery.ui.about (DG);
  43:  * 08-Oct-2002 : Fixed errors reported by Checkstyle (DG);
  44:  *
  45:  */
  46: 
  47: package org.jfree.ui.about;
  48: 
  49: /**
  50:  * Contains the full texts of the GNU General Public Licence and the GNU Lesser General Public
  51:  * Licence.
  52:  * <P>
  53:  * These are used in the presentation of a standard 'About' frame.
  54:  *
  55:  * @author David Gilbert
  56:  */
  57: public class Licences {
  58: 
  59:     /** The GNU General Public Licence. */
  60:     public static final String GPL = "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n"
  61:         + "\n"
  62:         + "Version 2, June 1991\n"
  63:         + "\n"
  64:         + "Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, "
  65:         + "MA 02139, USA. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this "
  66:         + "license document, but changing it is not allowed.\n"
  67:         + "\n"
  68:         + "Preamble\n"
  69:         + "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and "
  70:         + "change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your "
  71:         + "freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all "
  72:         + "its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software "
  73:         + "Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some "
  74:         + "other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public "
  75:         + "License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.\n"
  76:         + "\n"
  77:         + "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General "
  78:         + "Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute "
  79:         + "copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive "
  80:         + "source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use "
  81:         + "pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
  82:         + "\n"
  83:         + "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you "
  84:         + "these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to "
  85:         + "certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you "
  86:         + "modify it.\n"
  87:         + "\n"
  88:         + "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, "
  89:         + "you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that "
  90:         + "they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so "
  91:         + "they know their rights.\n"
  92:         + "\n"
  93:         + "We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you "
  94:         + "this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the "
  95:         + "software.\n"
  96:         + "\n"
  97:         + "Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone "
  98:         + "understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is "
  99:         + "modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they "
 100:         + "have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect "
 101:         + "on the original authors' reputations.\n"
 102:         + "\n"
 103:         + "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to "
 104:         + "avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent "
 105:         + "licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it "
 106:         + "clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at "
 107:         + "all.\n"
 108:         + "\n"
 109:         + "The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.\n"
 110:         + "\n"
 111:         + "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n"
 112:         + "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION\n"
 113:         + "\n"
 114:         + "0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by "
 115:         + "the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General "
 116:         + "Public License. The \"Program\", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "
 117:         + "\"work based on the Program\" means either the Program or any derivative work under "
 118:         + "copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, "
 119:         + "either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. "
 120:         + "(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "
 121:         + "\"modification\".) Each licensee is addressed as \"you\".\n"
 122:         + "\n"
 123:         + "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this "
 124:         + "License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, "
 125:         + "and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work "
 126:         + "based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether "
 127:         + "that is true depends on what the Program does.\n"
 128:         + "\n"
 129:         + "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you "
 130:         + "receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish "
 131:         + "on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact "
 132:         + "all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and "
 133:         + "give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the "
 134:         + "Program.\n"
 135:         + "\n"
 136:         + "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your "
 137:         + "option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.\n"
 138:         + "\n"
 139:         + "2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus "
 140:         + "forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or "
 141:         + "work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these "
 142:         + "conditions:\n"
 143:         + "\n"
 144:         + "a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you "
 145:         + "changed the files and the date of any change.\n"
 146:         + "\n"
 147:         + "b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part "
 148:         + "contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole "
 149:         + "at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.\n"
 150:         + "\n"
 151:         + "c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must "
 152:         + "cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to "
 153:         + "print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a "
 154:         + "notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and "
 155:         + "that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user "
 156:         + "how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive "
 157:         + "but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is "
 158:         + "not required to print an announcement.)\n"
 159:         + "\n"
 160:         + "These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of "
 161:         + "that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered "
 162:         + "independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not "
 163:         + "apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you "
 164:         + "distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, "
 165:         + "the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions "
 166:         + "for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part "
 167:         + "regardless of who wrote it.\n"
 168:         + "\n"
 169:         + "Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to "
 170:         + "work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control "
 171:         + "the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.\n"
 172:         + "\n"
 173:         + "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the "
 174:         + "Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution "
 175:         + "medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.\n"
 176:         + "\n"
 177:         + "3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in "
 178:         + "object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that "
 179:         + "you also do one of the following:\n"
 180:         + "\n"
 181:         + "a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which "
 182:         + "must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily "
 183:         + "used for software interchange; or,\n"
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 185:         + "third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source "
 186:         + "distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be "
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 188:         + "software interchange; or,\n"
 189:         + "c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute "
 190:         + "corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial "
 191:         + "distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form "
 192:         + "with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)\n"
 193:         + "\n"
 194:         + "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making "
 195:         + "modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source "
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 199:         + "normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components "
 200:         + "(compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, "
 201:         + "unless that component itself accompanies the executable.\n"
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 203:         + "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a "
 204:         + "designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the "
 205:         + "same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are "
 206:         + "not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.\n"
 207:         + "\n"
 208:         + "4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly "
 209:         + "provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or "
 210:         + "distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under "
 211:         + "this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under "
 212:         + "this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in "
 213:         + "full compliance."
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 217:         + "derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this "
 218:         + "License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the "
 219:         + "Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and "
 220:         + "conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.\n"
 221:         + "\n"
 222:         + "6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the "
 223:         + "recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, "
 224:         + "distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not "
 225:         + "impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted "
 226:         + "herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this "
 227:         + "License."
 228:         + "\n"
 229:         + "7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or "
 230:         + "for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you "
 231:         + "(whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of "
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 233:         + "cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License "
 234:         + "and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the "
 235:         + "Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free "
 236:         + "redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly "
 237:         + "through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to "
 238:         + "refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.\n"
 239:         + "\n"
 240:         + "If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular "
 241:         + "circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a "
 242:         + "whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.\n"
 243:         + "\n"
 244:         + "It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other "
 245:         + "property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the "
 246:         + "sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, "
 247:         + "which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous "
 248:         + "contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in "
 249:         + "reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to "
 250:         + "decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a "
 251:         + "licensee cannot impose that choice.\n"
 252:         + "\n"
 253:         + "This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence "
 254:         + "of the rest of this License.\n"
 255:         + "\n"
 256:         + "8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries "
 257:         + "either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who "
 258:         + "places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution "
 259:         + "limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or "
 260:         + "among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the "
 261:         + "limitation as if written in the body of this License.\n"
 262:         + "\n"
 263:         + "9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General "
 264:         + "Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the "
 265:         + "present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.\n"
 266:         + "\n"
 267:         + "Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a "
 268:         + "version number of this License which applies to it and \"any later version\", you have "
 269:         + "the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any "
 270:         + "later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not "
 271:         + "specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by "
 272:         + "the Free Software Foundation.\n"
 273:         + "\n"
 274:         + "10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose "
 275:         + "distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For "
 276:         + "software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free "
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 278:         + "guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free "
 279:         + "software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.\n"
 280:         + "\n"
 281:         + "NO WARRANTY\n"
 282:         + "\n"
 283:         + "11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE "
 284:         + "PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN "
 285:         + "WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM \"AS IS\" "
 286:         + "WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED "
 287:         + "TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. "
 288:         + "THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD "
 289:         + "THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR "
 290:         + "CORRECTION.\n"
 291:         + "\n"
 292:         + "12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY "
 293:         + "COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS "
 294:         + "PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, "
 295:         + "INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE "
 296:         + "PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE "
 297:         + "OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE "
 298:         + "WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE "
 299:         + "POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.\n"
 300:         + "\n"
 301:         + "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS\n"
 302:         + "\n"
 303:         + "\n"
 304:         + "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs\n"
 305:         + "\n"
 306:         + "If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to "
 307:         + "the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone "
 308:         + "can redistribute and change under these terms.\n"
 309:         + "\n"
 310:         + "To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest to attach them to "
 311:         + "the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; "
 312:         + "and each file should have at least the \"copyright\" line and a pointer to where the "
 313:         + "full notice is found.\n"
 314:         + "\n"
 315:         + "<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>\n"
 316:         + "Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>\n"
 317:         + "\n"
 318:         + "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the "
 319:         + "terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; "
 320:         + "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n"
 321:         + "\n"
 322:         + "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY "
 323:         + "WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A "
 324:         + "PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.\n"
 325:         + "\n"
 326:         + "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this "
 327:         + "program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite "
 328:         + "330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA\n"
 329:         + "\n"
 330:         + "Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.\n"
 331:         + "\n"
 332:         + "If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts "
 333:         + "in an interactive mode:\n"
 334:         + "\n"
 335:         + "Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes with "
 336:         + "ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.\n"
 337:         + "This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain "
 338:         + "conditions; type `show c' for details.\n"
 339:         + "\n"
 340:         + "The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of "
 341:         + "the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may be called something "
 342:         + "other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items"
 343:         + "--whatever suits your program.\n"
 344:         + "\n"
 345:         + "You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if "
 346:         + "any, to sign a \"copyright disclaimer\" for the program, if necessary.  Here is a "
 347:         + "sample; alter the names:\n"
 348:         + "\n"
 349:         + "Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision' "
 350:         + "(which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.\n"
 351:         + "\n"
 352:         + "<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989\n"
 353:         + "Ty Coon, President of Vice\n"
 354:         + "\n"
 355:         + "This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into "
 356:         + "proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it "
 357:         + "more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library.  If this is "
 358:         + "what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this "
 359:         + "License.\n";
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 372:         + "successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number "
 373:         + "2.1.]\n"
 374:         + "\n"
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 376:         + "\n"
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 379:         + "freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all "
 380:         + "its users.\n"
 381:         + "\n"
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 387:         + "\n"
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 389:         + "General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to "
 390:         + "distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish); that you "
 391:         + "receive source code or can get it if you want it; that you can change the software and "
 392:         + "use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you are informed that you can do these "
 393:         + "things.\n"
 394:         + "\n"
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 414:         + "the original author's reputation will not be affected by problems that might be "
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 815:      */
 816:     public String getGPL() {
 817:         return GPL;
 818:     }
 819: 
 820:     /**
 821:      * Returns the LGPL text in a non static way to prevent the compiler
 822:      * to copy the contents of the field.
 823:      *
 824:      * @return the LGPL licence text.
 825:      */
 826:     public String getLGPL() {
 827:         return LGPL;
 828:     }
 829: }