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J

Copyright © Peter Graves, 1998-2003.

The j editor and this documentation are free software. You can redistribute and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program 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 General Public License for more details.

Many of J's icons are taken from the GNOME 2 Icon Project.

J uses and redistributes the gnu.regexp regular expression package, which is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

J uses and redistributes the BeanShell lightweight scripting package, which is also distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

J uses (and, in versions prior to 0.19.0.2, redistributed) SAX 2.0, the Simple API for XML, and the SAX2-ext extension package. SAX 2.0 is in the public domain.

Ælfred

Versions of j prior to 0.19.0.2 included a version of the Ælfred XML parser, originally from Microstar, taken from the May 29 2000 release by David Brownell. Ælfred's package name has been changed to org.armedbear.j.aelfred to prevent any accidental confusion with either the original Microstar code or David Brownell's version. Only the XML parser and SAX driver are included in the j distribution.

Ælfred was orginally released by Microstar under the following license:

    AElfred, Version 1.1
    Microstar's Java-Based XML Parser
    Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 by Microstar Software Ltd.
    Home Page: http://www.microstar.com/XML/

    AElfred is free for both commercial and non-commercial use and
    redistribution, provided that Microstar's copyright and disclaimer are
    retained intact.  You are free to modify AElfred for your own use and
    to redistribute AElfred with your modifications, provided that the
    modifications are clearly documented.


    DISCLAIMER
    ----------

    This program 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.  Please use it AT
    YOUR OWN RISK.
David Brownell's software is distributed under the following license:
    LICENSE

    The intent of this license is to establish freedom to share and change
    the software regulated by this license under the open source model, while
    preserving exclusive rights of the copyright holder to evolve the
    copyrighted interfaces.

    This license applies to any software containing a notice placed by the
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    of free software which uses the Software.

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    3. You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
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        d. Modifications must be provided to the initial developer.

    4. You may distribute machine-executable forms of the Software or
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        a. You must include this license document in the distribution.

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        c. You must ensure that all modifications included in the
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    5. You may use the original or modified versions of the Software to
       compile, link and run application programs legally developed by you
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