Falcon Programming Language License
Version 1.1, March 2008
http://www.falconpl.org/?page_id=license_1_1
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APPENDIX: How to apply the Falcon Programming Language License to your work
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APPENDIX: License commentary
Dear reader,
First of all, thanks for considering using The Falcon Language for Your job, or
to embed it into Your application, or to use it for any other reason. The Falcon
Programming Language License explains what You are allowed to do with Falcon and
what You are supposed (and allowed) not to do. Since the legal jargon may be
cryptic, You are provided here with a little resume of the License. It is
important that You read and accept the License, as this resume hasn't any legal
valence, and is provided only for the reason to express clarifications and
examples that cannot find their place in the formal document.
The License grants You the rights to use the Source code of Falcon and its
various components in any way; You can study it, You can copy it, You can modify
it, and You can even sell it, but You can't change the license under which it is
distributed: even if You sell it, You have to provide the customers with the
source code of Falcon and to grant them the same rights You have on it.
The License also grants Your copyrights and intellectual rights for any
modification or addition You may want to apply to Falcon. In case or addition
and modifications, the License binds You to provide the user with the
information that the original program, that is Falcon, was modified by You and
what are the changes or the additions that You applied.
Also, even if You can freely distribute, or even charge a fee, for Your derived
work, You MUST apply the Falcon Programming Language License to Your
modifications, and distribute them under the same terms. In other words, Your
modifications, if made public, must be provided or available in source code.
The license also grants You the right to embed Falcon in any application. Here
You are granted the right to pick the terms and licenses You prefer, and to
distribute Your embedding application without providing its source code. Even if
significant portions of Falcon are in line functions, and even if You decide to
statically link Falcon in Your application, this doesn't make it a "Derivative
Work" of it: Your Embedding application is free to embed Falcon "as is" as it
wish, without any requirements in terms of source distribution. You can also
modify Falcon for Your specific needs and THEN embed Your modified version; the
modified version of Falcon is under Falcon License, and must be made available
in source code (or be proposed as a Contribution to the Falcon Committee), but
Your Embedding application can still be distributed under Your preferred terms.
The License has only a requirement that is demanded on Your Embedding
application: in case you don't distribute your embedding application isn't made
available in source code, You HAVE to state somewhere (in a place that CAN
possibly be seen by the average user) that You are embedding Falcon and the
reason for that. In example, You may state "ProgramX uses the Falcon Programming
Language to automatize the Gamma procedure".
About the scripts, which are more or less what a scripting language is for, You
are granted the right to apply the license You prefer. As Falcon is also a
script "compiler", You may even retain from distributing the script sources, and
apply closed-source license to Your script-based application or to the scripts
that are embedded in Your embedding application. However, if You don't
distribute the script sources, and you use Falcon or another application covered
by the same license to run them, You are again required to state somewhere in
Your documentation or where the user can read it that You are using "Falcon" (or
the derivative work you used), and more or less why You are doing it. For a pure
Falcon application, You can just state "This application is written in Falcon".
In example, if You use Falcon to drive a web site, and You don't want Your site
visitors to ever see Your scripts, You have to put somewhere a reading like
"Powered with Falcon".
What You cannot do is to claim that any thing You learnt from Falcon is Yours:
especially, You are forbidden to patent any element that is found in Falcon.
Another thing that You can't do is to sell a Falcon based product as if it were
"completely" Yours, forgetting to cite, even in a very small reading, the fact
that Falcon is in. Finally, a thing that the License prevents You from doing is
to put the blame for failures on Falcon: the product is provided as-is, without
any warranty. It's up to You to test if it is suitable to solve Your problems,
and if a Falcon based application can be sold and granted as "working" to Your
customers. If that application breaks, whether there's a problem with Falcon or
not, You can't issue any claim on the Falcon contributors.
Finally, notice that this version of falcon is released under dual license.
You may chose either to use this FPLLv1.1 license or the standard GNU GPLv2.
GNU GPLv2 is usually shipped with Your distribution and commentaries are widely
available on the Net, so we won't discuss it here.
Be kind on the Open Source Community: they have already made a lot for You even
if You don't know them (and even if they don't know You).
Best regards,
Giancarlo Niccolai
