.. This file is part of Message For You Sir (m4us).
.. Copyright © 2010 Krys Lawrence
..
.. Message For You Sir is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
.. it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
.. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
.. option) any later version.
..
.. Message For You Sir is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
.. WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
.. or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Affero General Public
.. License for more details.
..
.. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
.. along with Message For You Sir.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

.. _licence:

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Licensing Information
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This file describes the licensing terms for *Message For You Sir!* (m4us) and
it's constituent parts.  It also provides details on the licence to which
contributors automatically agree when contributing copyrightable material to
this project.

Project Licence
===============

*Message For You Sir!* (m4us) is licensed under the `GNU Affero General Public
License version 3`_ or later (`AGPLv3+`_).  This is free software: you are free
to change and redistribute it under certain conditions.  There is NO WARRANTY,
to the extent permitted by law.  For the full licence text, see |COPYING|.

Documentation Licence
=====================

The documentation source files (those documentation files included in the
version control system and/or in the source distribution for this project are
considered source code just like the program source code.  They are, therefore,
also licenced under the `AGPLv3+`_ just like the rest of the project.

Additionally, all forms of *m4us* documentation generated from the source
files, such as, but not limited to, HTML, EPUB, latex, PDF, man pages, etc. are
also licenced under the `AGPLv3+`_, just like the rest of the project.

Licensing of Included 3rd-Party Code
====================================

This project includes a patched copy of repoze.sphinx.autointerface_ version
0.4.  It is licensed under a `BSD-derived licence`_.  It is only used for
generating the documentation and not required for the proper functioning if
*m4us*.  It is considered merely an aggregate, in GPL terminology.

Contributions
=============

By submitting a patch, bug report or any other copyrightable material to this
project, you automatically agree to license the contribution under the `Apache
Software License, v. 2.0`_, and further agree that it may be re-licensed as
necessary for inclusion in *m4us* or other downstream projects.
