Any file in this project that doesn’t state otherwise, and isn’t listed as an exception below, is Copyright 2016-2017 the nyan authors, and licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3, or (at your option) any later version (“LGPL3+”). A copy of the license can be found in legal/LGPLv3. For completeness, a copy of the GPLv3 is included at legal/GPLv3.

the nyan authors are:

Full name	aliases	E-Mail
Jonas Jelten	TheJJ	jj@sft.mx
Markus Otto	zuntrax	otto@fs.tum.de
Michael Enßlin	mic_e	michael@ensslin.cc
Andre Kupka	freakout	kupka@in.tum.de
Tushar Maheshwari	tusharpm	tushar27192@gmail.com
Andrew Thompson	mrwerdo	mrwerdo331@me.com

If you’re a first-time commiter, add yourself to the above list. This is not just for legal reasons, but also to keep an overview of all those nicknames.

If your info is missing, wrong, or you want it to be removed for whatever reason, please contact us.

A full list of all nyan authors (“contributors”) can also be determined from the VCS, e.g. via git shortlog -sne, or conveniently looked up on the GitHub web interface.

Details on individual authorships of files can be obtained via the VCS, e.g. via git blame, or the GitHub web interface.

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 Lesser General Public License Version 3 for more details.

If you wish to include a file from nyan in your project, make sure to include all required legal info. The easiest way to do this would probably be to include a copy of this file (copying.md), and to leave the file’s copyright header untouched.

Per-file license header guidelines:

In addition to this file, to prevent legal caveats, every source file must include a header.

nyan-native source files, that is, files that were created by the nyan authors, require the following one-line header, preferrably in the first line, as a comment:

Copyright 20XX-20YY the nyan authors, LGPLv3+. See copying.md for legal info.

20XX is the year when the file was created, and 20YY is the year when the file was last edited. When editing a file, make sure the last-modification year is still correct.

Notes about this file:

This file originates from openage. It was adapted for nyan and its license.

I (zuntrax) and neither mic_e are lawyers. This is an open-source project, we’re doing this for fun. People convinced me that this legal shit must be done, so I did it, even though I’d rather have spent the time on useful parts of the project. If you see any legal issues, feel free to contact me. I, personally, despise in-sourcefile legal text blocks. They’re a pest, and unlike many others, I don’t simply accept them because “that is what everybody does”. Thus, I worked out the minimal 1-line text above, which should be free of legal caveats, and a reasonable compromise. I’d be happy to see it used in other projects; you’re free to use this file (copying.md) as a template for your project’s legal documentation.