Open Public License

As a matter of logistics and to permit OpenSS7 users the most flexible use of OpenSS7 software, some source files are distributed under an open public license. Our open public license is shown below. In general, the only files that OpenSS7 provides under a open public license are header files that are intended to be used by applications developers and are to be installed into system header files in a distribution.

Historically OpenSS7 distributed header files under this license; however, for consistency, all header files are currently distributed under AGPL3.

OpenSS7 may provide some software under a Open Public License such as that shown in the listing below. In general, OpenSS7 provides this Open Public License on some header files that describe the interface to the OpenSS7 stack. This permits applications to be written in compliance to the OpenSS7 interfaces without necessarily being linked with the OpenSS7 stacks. This is primarily used on STREAMS interface files (such as the xti_sctp.h). This license on header files in no way detracts from the full GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 licensing of the OpenSS7 stacks themselves. These interface files are provided to industry to permit other applications to utilize OpenSS7 interfaces without necessarily utilizing OpenSS7 code.

The OpenSS7 Open Public License looks like that presented in the following Listing:

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 @(#) $Id$

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     Copyright (c) 2001-2008 OpenSS7 Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.

                                  PUBLIC LICENSE

     This license is provided without fee, provided that the above copy-
     right notice and this public license must be retained on all copies,
     extracts, compilations and derivative works.  Use or distribution of
     this work in a manner that restricts its use except as provided here
     will render this license void.

     The author(s) hereby waive any and all other restrictions in respect
     of their copyright in this software and its associated documentation.
     The authors(s) of this software place in the public domain any novel
     methods or processes which are embodied in this software.

     The author(s) undertook to write it for the sake of the advancement
     of the Arts and Sciences, but it is provided as is, and the author(s)
     will not take any responsibility in it.

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 U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS.  If you are licensing this Software on
 behalf of the U.S. Government ("Government"), the following provisions apply
 to you.  If the Software is supplied by the Department of Defense ("DoD"), it
 is classified as "Commercial Computer Software" under paragraph 252.227-7014
 of the DoD Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulations ("DFARS") (or any
 successor regulations) and the Government is acquiring only the license rights
 granted herein (the license rights customarily provided to non-Government
 users).  If the Software is supplied to any unit or agency of the Government
 other than DoD, it is classified as "Restricted Computer Software" and the
 Government's rights in the Software are defined in paragraph 52.227-19 of the
 Federal Acquisition Regulations ("FAR") (or any successor regulations) or, in
 the cases of NASA, in paragraph 18.52.227-86 of the NASA Supplement to the FAR
 (or any successor regulations).

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 Last Modified $Date$ by $Author$

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#ifndef __SOMENAME__
#define __SOMENAME__

#ident "@(#) $Name$($Revision$) Copyright (c) 2001-2008 OpenSS7 Corporation."


#endif				/* __SOMENAME__ */

Open Public License

Description: OpenSS7 License Open License.