Licensing

"Nobody should be restricted by the software they use".

Allwards Laboratory shares this great principle declared by Free Software Foundation. We produce and publish free software products (applications) with open sources. "Free software" means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the application and what it does for them.

Allwards Laboratory produces and publishes software products (applications) under terms and conditions of GNU General Public License (GPL) V3 or later. This kind of license grants that application will be free and stay free, no matter who changes or distributes it. Some integral parts of applications (libraries, frameworks or add-ons) are distributed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) V3 or later. It gives ability to use them separately in other software products including proprietary software. All documents published on this site are distributed under terms and conditions of GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) V1.3 or later*.

You can find actual versions of licenses here:

GNU General Public License (GPL)
GNU Lesser Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

In accordance with GPL and LGPL any developer who made modifications of Allwards Laboratory application may add own copyright notices, but must keep original copyright notices and names of all developers in modified sources and executables. Modified application must stay free software with open sources as well.

Allwards Laboratory requires no special permissions for modification, distribution, translation, copying or other meaningful usage of documents published on this site. Please keep all copyright notices have included in documents unchanged.

If you like to modify and sell purchased copy of Allwards Laboratory application as own regular business then you must get its sources and remove Steal Protection Service (ASPS) functionality first. Then you may extend application functionality, change application interface and even name, rebuild and distributes it as own free software product** under GNU General Public License.

* Find more information about GNU licensing principles here.
** Allwards Laboratory does not provide no financial, legal or steal prevention services for modified products.