Allwards Laboratory is a private internet project founded and managed by Oleg Uryutin. Allwards Laboratory develops and distributes software products (applications) sharing values declared by Free Software Foundation (FSF). It means that all applications and their integral parts produced and published by Allwards Laboratory are free software with open sources.
Allwards Laboratory shares main FSF principle that useful ideas should be common possession of all humans. Therefore, concept of 'intellectual property' does not supposed and does not applied in relation to published applications, sources, ideas and investigations. Allwards Laboratory does publishing or distributing applications in such a way to keep next freedoms for end-users:
- The freedom to run (use) the application for any legal purpose;
- The freedom to study and to know how the application works;
- The freedom to distribute copies of the application;
- The freedom to improve (modify) the application and to release own improvements (modifications) to the public.
Access to the source code is a precondition for second and fourth freedoms.
The only founder, owner, manager and master developer of Allwards Laboratory is Oleg Uryutin. All applications and ideas produced and published by Allwards Laboratory are both copyrighted for him and the publisher (Allwards Laboratory).
Allwards is a word contrived by Oleg Uryutin. It is logical extension of such notions as upward, downward, forward, backward, leftward and rightward has meaning of 'all wards simultaneously'.
Official Allwards Laboratory logo is an asterisk embraced by curly brackets. The main idea was born from Extended Backus-Nour Form (EBNF) notation technique where curly brackets have meaning 'repetition of something many times or in many ways'. The asterisk usually used in wildcards and patterns with meaning 'any character or group of characters' or just 'all'. Combined meaning of Allwards Laboratory logo is 'all in many ways or wards'.