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:Author: Uli Fouquet
:Contact: uli at gnufix dot de
:Web site: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ulif.rest
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.

Most of the files included in this package have been placed in the
public domain, and therefore have no license requirements and no
restrictions on copying or usage; see the `Public Domain Dedication`_
below.  There are a few exceptions_, listed below.

Public Domain Dedication
========================

The persons who have associated their work with this project (the
"Dedicator": Uli Fouquet and the contributors to the ulif.rest
package) hereby dedicate the entire copyright, less the exceptions_
listed below, in the work of authorship known as "ulif.rest"
identified below (the "Work") to the public domain.

The primary repository for the Work is the Internet World Wide Web
site <http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ulif.rest>.  The Work consists
of the files within the "ulif.rest" module of this project Subversion
repository (Internet host svn.gnufix.de, filesystem path
/repos/ulif.rest), whose Internet web interface is located at
<https://svn.gnufix.de/repos/ulif.rest>.  Files dedicated to the
public domain may be identified by the inclusion, near the beginning
of each file, of a declaration of the form::

    Copyright: This document/module/DTD/stylesheet/file/etc. has been
               placed in the public domain.

Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large
and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs and successors.  Dedicator
intends this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in
perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law,
whether vested or contingent, in the Work.  Dedicator understands that
such relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all
rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the
Work.

Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work
may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified,
built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose,
commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods
that have not yet been invented or conceived.

(This dedication is derived from the text of the `Creative Commons
Public Domain Dedication
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain>`_.)


Exceptions
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The exceptions to the `Public Domain Dedication`_ above are:

* ulif/rest/pygments_directive.py, copyright by Georg Brandl, released
  under BSD-style license (which can be found in the module's source
  code).

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)  The BSD license is OSI-approved_ and
GPL-compatible_.  Although complicated by multiple owners and lots of
legalese, the Python license basically lets you copy, use, modify, and
redistribute files as long as you keep the copyright attribution
intact, note any changes you make, and don't use the owner's name in
vain.  The BSD license is similar.

.. _OSI-approved: http://opensource.org/licenses/
.. _GPL-compatible: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
