Licence

The code is published under MIT license:

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

Human protection

In older versions we added the human protect patch to the MIT licence. The patch was removed from the licence from version 1.2.0 on.

This is just made for compatibility reasons related to other software projects using this package. For the authors the human protect patch would still make sense. But we believe that a wider usage of the package brings more positive effects then negative effects (related to human protection too).

To express our intention we finally ask every user to consider the following extension on an optional voluntarily base (even that the additional article is no more part of the license):

Human protection: The program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed.

At least in our opinion people should take more responsibility for the objectives they are delivering and publishing. The global society should find new and better regulations for such proposes. Currently we see on the one hand side nearly total freedom to use any artifact for the users advantage (like MIT) and on the other hand we have relative high protected areas (copyrights, patents) which limits the usage mainly to protect the owners advantages related to his benefit (win money, win force, etc.). We need here additional possibilities, like free patents and a more detailed control related to the usage of these objectives (like human protection or non exclusive rights only). Related to open source licences a cascade setup of licence regulations might be possible.