License

For a change, a license that is not ten pages long and basically boils down to
the fact that the user has no rights at all, but is short and written in simple
English (at least until I can afford to get a lawyer to do it properly).

I am unsure of the legality of using "BigPond Cable" in the name of this
package, if it turns out to be a big no no, then I will change the name to "Big
Perfect Coder's Network Organizer". BigPond Cable may wish to license this from
me one day, they have expressed considerable excitement over the concept. If
they do, they will no doubt wish to call it "BigPond Cable Network Organizer",
this way I can call the class BPC_NO either way, Java is fussy about what you
call it's classes. BPC has changed their name to BPA since I wrote this
paragraph, I haven't yet decided what to do about that.

BigPond Cable Network Organizer (BPC_NO) is Copyright (C) 1999 by David Walter
Seikel. BPC_NO currently includes the files BPC_NO.java, BPC_NO.class,
BPC_NO.txt, BPC_GUI.java, BPC_GUI.class, BPC_GUI.skang, and BPC_GUI_small.skang,
all of which are included in this package. All rights reserved.

BPC_NO is completely free of charge for non commercial use, but commercial use
and all distribution of BPC_NO requires an individually negotiated license
agreement. This means that any commercial organization that wishes to use
BPC_NO, and anybody at all that wishes to distribute BPC_NO must contact David
Walter Seikel to negotiate a deal. My intention is to get rewarded for my
efforts if anybody makes lots of money with BPC_NO.

For the alpha testers that also happen to be commercial organizations, the deal
is that you can use BPC_NO for free as long as you test it each time I send you
an update. All alpha testers must return test results to me as soon as possible,
including the Operating System (OS) name and version, and the Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) name and version, for as many different OS's and JVM's as you can.

Commercial organizations that donate code to BPC_NO can count that code as their
license fee as long as they are not distributing BPC_NO.

The source code for BPC_NO is included as part of this package for two reasons.
The first reason is that the paranoid may wish to review the source code for
deliberate security holes, and recompile BPC_NO if they want to.

The second reason is for those that wish to contribute code and fixes to BPC_NO.
All changes to the source code for BPC_NO must be sent to me for possible
inclusion in a later revision. I am mostly worried about quality control issues.
I will not get into ownership issues of contributed changes in this version of
the license, except to say that I am open to negotiation, but I would prefer not
to complicate this license.

The contents of the examples directory are not covered by this license.
Contributed code for the examples directory is owned by the authors of that
code, and can be covered by whatever license they require, so long as I can
distribute it. Most of the contents of the dev directory are public news
postings, and are not covered by this license.