License

OpenInput is licensed under the the LGPL license -- the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or later, at your option). You can read the full license at this location: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt. There also a HTML version available.

If you've never heard about the LGPL before, here's a brief three point summary of what you must do:

1. Release any modifications to the OpenInput source back to the community
2. Pass on the source to OpenInput with all the copyrights intact
3. Make it clear where you have customised it

Note: The above is a very very rough summary, and there's much more to it than these three points, so please read the full license before using OpenInput.

Using OpenInput in commercial projects

It is possible to use OpenInput in commercial products even without infecting your propriatery code with the LGPL license. The rule of thumb is that as long as you dynamically link the OpenInput libraries, you're safe. However, do read the full license before using OpenInput, thank you.

This document was last modified Sunday November 29, 2009.